placental mammal vs digitigrade

digitigrade vs placental mammal

placental mammal and digitigrade both are nouns.

placental mammal is not an adjective while digitigrade is an adjective.

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

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

placental mammal: 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 mammal 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 mammal (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 mammal (adjective)	digitigrade (adjective)
	(of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)

Difference between placental mammal and digitigrade

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