placental vs aardvark

aardvark vs placental

placental and aardvark both are nouns.

placental is an adjective but aardvark is not an adjective.

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

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

placental: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
aardvark: nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata

Other hyponyms of placental include farm animal, livestock, stock, bull, cow, yearling, buck, doe, insectivore, aquatic mammal, carnivore, Fissipedia, 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, plantigrade mammal, digitigrade, digitigrade mammal.

placental (noun)	aardvark (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata

placental (adjective)	aardvark (adjective)
pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta

Difference between placental and aardvark

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