Promammalia

plural noun

Pro·​mammalia

¦prō+

: a hypothetical group often treated as a subclass and comprising animals immediately ancestral to the true mammals

promammalian

"+

adjective

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from pro- entry 1 + mammalia

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