• Mammaldom

    Origin

    mammal + -dom

    Full definition of mammaldom

    Noun

    mammaldom

    (uncountable)
    1. (rare) The condition of being a mammal.
      • 1951, Alan Devoe, This Fascinating Animal World, page 4:The whole of this vast mammaldom which so dwarfs us is itself no more than a tenth of the entirety of the vertebrates (the backboned animals).
      • 2007, February 20, Natalie Angier, A Mammal in Winter With a Furnace of Her Own, At the museum, visitors are reminded that mammaldom did not confer any major advantages on its earliest practitioners.
      • 2009, Christopher McDougall, Born to Run, page 214:But why, in all mammaldom, would a jackrabbit need a spring-loaded belly?

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