female mammal

collocation in English

meaningsoffemaleandmammal

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female
adjective
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/ˈfiː.meɪl/us
/ˈfiː.meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or ...
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mammal
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmæm.əl/us
/ˈmæm.əl/
any animal of which the female feeds her young on milk from her own body. Most mammals give birth to live young, ...
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(Definition offemaleandmammalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If the cloned cells are placed in the uterus of afemalemammal, a cloned organism develops to term in rare instances.
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It seems likely that female hominins, like female mammals in general, had evolved for some functions more advanced brains than their male counterparts.
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Occasionally, female mammals ovulate large diploid 'giant oocytes'.
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All female mammals nurse their young with milk, which is secreted from special glands, the mammary glands.
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Since the first polar body normally disintegrates rather than dividing again, meiosis in female mammals results in three products, the oocyte and two polar bodies.
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Individual male and female mammals meet and carry out copulation.
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Some of which included the harvesting of female mammals such as deer to decrease rising populations.
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The process can occur with almost all post-pregnancy female mammals, although it predates mammals.
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Calico cats may have already provided findings relating to physiological differences between male and female mammals.
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It is commonly seen in female mammals during estrus (being in heat).
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In female mammals, meiosis begins immediately after primordial germ cells migrate to the ovary in the embryo, but in the males, meiosis begins later, at the time of puberty.
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