mammalian vs placental mammal

placental mammal vs mammalian

mammalian and placental mammal both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

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

Difference between mammalian and placental mammal

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