The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young.
n. An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.
n. A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One of the Mammalia.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Having breasts or teats; mammiferous.
n. An animal of the class Mammalia.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
Word Usage
"The same sort of thing was true for the term mammal in the beginning."