eutherian mammal vs plantigrade

plantigrade vs eutherian mammal

eutherian mammal and plantigrade both are nouns.

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

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

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

eutherian mammal: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
plantigrade: an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings

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 mammal, digitigrade, digitigrade mammal.

eutherian mammal (noun)	plantigrade (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings

eutherian mammal (adjective)	plantigrade (adjective)
	(of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do)

Difference between eutherian mammal and plantigrade

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