placental vs digitigrade

digitigrade vs placental

placental and digitigrade both are nouns.

placental and digitigrade both are adjectives.

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

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

placental: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
digitigrade: an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses

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

placental (noun)	digitigrade (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses

placental (adjective)	digitigrade (adjective)
pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta	(of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)

Difference between placental and digitigrade

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