eutherian mammal vs digitigrade

digitigrade vs eutherian mammal

eutherian mammal and digitigrade both are nouns.

eutherian mammal is not an adjective while digitigrade is an adjective.

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

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

eutherian mammal: 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 mammal 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 mammal (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 mammal (adjective)	digitigrade (adjective)
	(of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)

Difference between eutherian mammal and digitigrade

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