placental mammal vs mammalian

mammalian vs placental mammal

placental mammal and mammalian both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, mammalian is a hypernym of placental mammal; that is, mammalian is a word with a broader meaning than placental mammal:

placental mammal: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
mammalian: any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk

Other hypernyms of placental mammal include mammal.

placental mammal (noun)	mammalian (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk

placental mammal (adjective)	mammalian (adjective)
	of or relating to the class Mammalia

Difference between placental mammal and mammalian

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