mammalian vs eutherian mammal

eutherian mammal vs mammalian

mammalian and eutherian mammal both are nouns.

mammalian is an adjective but eutherian mammal is not an adjective.

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

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

mammalian: 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 mammalian include female mammal, tusker, prototherian, metatherian, eutherian, placental, placental mammal, fossorial mammal.

mammalian (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

mammalian (adjective)	eutherian mammal (adjective)
of or relating to the class Mammalia

Difference between mammalian and eutherian mammal

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