placental

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

pla=cen=tal

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun placental has 1 sense

placental(n = noun.animal) eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials; Array

is a kind of mammal, mammalian

is a member of eutheria, subclass eutheria

has particulars: farm animal, livestock, stock, bull, cow, yearling, buck, doe, insectivore, aquatic mammal, carnivore, fissipedia, aardvark, ant bear, anteater, orycteropus afer, bat, chiropteran, gnawing mammal, lagomorph, gnawer, rodent, ungulata, hoofed mammal, ungulate, unguiculata, unguiculate, unguiculate mammal, coney, cony, das, dassie, hyrax, pachyderm, edentate, anteater, pangolin, scaly anteater, primate, tree shrew, colugo, flying cat, flying lemur, proboscidean, proboscidian, plantigrade, plantigrade mammal, digitigrade, digitigrade mammal

Derived form adjective placental₁

Adjective placental has 1 sense

placental(a = adj.all) Array - pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta; "all mammals except monotremes and marsupials are placental mammals"

Antonym:

aplacental

Derived forms noun placenta₂, noun placenta₁, noun placental₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

placental, a.

Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal. [1913 Webster]
Of or pertaining to the Placentalia. [1913 Webster]

placental, n.

One of the Placentalia. [1913 Webster]

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