mammalian vs placental

placental vs mammalian

mammalian and placental both are nouns.

mammalian and placental both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mammalian	Yes	Yes	No	No
placental	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, placental is a hyponym of mammalian; that is, placental 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
placental: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

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

mammalian (noun)	placental (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)	placental (adjective)
of or relating to the class Mammalia	pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta

Difference between mammalian and placental

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