placental vs plantigrade

plantigrade vs placental

placental and plantigrade both are nouns.

placental and plantigrade both are adjectives.

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

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

placental: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
plantigrade: an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings

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 mammal, digitigrade, digitigrade mammal.

placental (noun)	plantigrade (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings

placental (adjective)	plantigrade (adjective)
pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta	(of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do)

Difference between placental and plantigrade

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