placental vs mammalian

mammalian vs placental

placental and mammalian both are nouns.

placental and mammalian both are adjectives.

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

As nouns, mammalian is a hypernym of placental; that is, mammalian is a word with a broader meaning than placental:

placental: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
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

Other hypernyms of placental include mammal.

placental (noun)	mammalian (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	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 (adjective)	mammalian (adjective)
pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta	of or relating to the class Mammalia

Difference between placental and mammalian

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