eutherian vs digitigrade

digitigrade vs eutherian

eutherian and digitigrade both are nouns.

eutherian and digitigrade both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
eutherian	Yes	Yes	No	No
digitigrade	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, digitigrade is a hyponym of eutherian; that is, digitigrade is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than eutherian:

eutherian: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
digitigrade: an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses

Other hyponyms of eutherian include 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 mammal.

eutherian (noun)	digitigrade (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses

eutherian (adjective)	digitigrade (adjective)
of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria	(of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)

Difference between eutherian and digitigrade

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