placental mammal vs digitigrade mammal

digitigrade mammal vs placental mammal

placental mammal and digitigrade mammal both are nouns.

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

As nouns, digitigrade mammal is a hyponym of placental mammal; that is, digitigrade mammal 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 mammal: 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.

placental mammal (noun)	digitigrade mammal (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

Difference between placental mammal and digitigrade mammal

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