placental mammal vs pangolin

pangolin vs placental mammal

placental mammal and pangolin both are nouns.

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

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

placental mammal: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
pangolin: toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites

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, scaly anteater, primate, tree shrew, colugo, flying cat, flying lemur, proboscidean, proboscidian, plantigrade, plantigrade mammal, digitigrade, digitigrade mammal.

placental mammal (noun)	pangolin (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites

Difference between placental mammal and pangolin

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