English > placental: 2 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials. |
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| Synonyms | placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal |
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| Member of | Eutheria, subclass Eutheria | All mammals except monotremes and marsupials |
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| Narrower | Fissipedia | In some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora |
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| Unguiculata | In former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws |
| Ungulata | In former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals |
| aardvark, ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer | nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites |
| aquatic mammal | whales and dolphins |
| bat, chiropteran | nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate |
| buck | mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope) |
| bull | mature male of various mammals of which the female is called 'cow' |
| carnivore | A terrestrial / terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal |
| cow | mature female of mammals of which the male is called 'bull' |
| digitigrade mammal, digitigrade | An animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses |
| doe | mature female of mammals of which the male is called 'buck' |
| edentate | Primitive terrestrial / terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth |
| flying lemur, flying cat, colugo | arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps |
| hyrax, coney, cony, dassie, das | Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes |
| insectivore | small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial / terrestrial or fossorial mammals |
| lagomorph, gnawing mammal | relative large gnawing animals |
| livestock, stock, farm animal | Any animals kept for use or profit |
| pachyderm | Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin |
| pangolin, scaly anteater, anteater | toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites |
| plantigrade mammal, plantigrade | An animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings |
| primate | Any placental mammal of the order Primates |
| proboscidean, proboscidian | massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk |
| rodent, gnawer | relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing |
| tree shrew | insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout |
| unguiculate, unguiculate mammal | A mammal having nails or claws |
| ungulate, hoofed mammal | Any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically |
| yearling | An animal in its second year |
| Broader | mammal, mammalian | Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair |
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| Spanish | euterios, mamífero, placentario, placentarios |
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| Catalan | euterios, euteris, placentari, placentaris |
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| Adjectives | placental | pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta |
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