placental mammal vs Orycteropus afer

Orycteropus afer vs placental mammal

placental mammal and Orycteropus afer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
placental mammal	Yes	No	No	No
Orycteropus afer	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

Other hyponyms of placental mammal include farm animal, livestock, stock, bull, cow, yearling, buck, doe, insectivore, aquatic mammal, carnivore, Fissipedia, aardvark, ant bear, anteater, 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 mammal (noun)	Orycteropus afer (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

Difference between placental mammal and Orycteropus afer

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