placental vs proboscidean

proboscidean vs placental

placental and proboscidean both are nouns.

placental is an adjective but proboscidean is not an adjective.

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

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

placental: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
proboscidean: massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk

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, proboscidian, plantigrade, plantigrade mammal, digitigrade, digitigrade mammal.

placental (noun)	proboscidean (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk

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

Difference between placental and proboscidean

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