mammal vs eutherian mammal

eutherian mammal vs mammal

mammal and eutherian mammal both are nouns.

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

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

mammal: any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
eutherian mammal: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

Other hyponyms of mammal include female mammal, tusker, prototherian, metatherian, eutherian, placental, placental mammal, fossorial mammal.

mammal (noun)	eutherian mammal (noun)
any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk	mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

Difference between mammal and eutherian mammal

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