placental mammal vs plantigrade mammal

plantigrade mammal vs placental mammal

placental mammal and plantigrade mammal both are nouns.

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

As nouns, plantigrade mammal is a hyponym of placental mammal; that is, plantigrade 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
plantigrade mammal: an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings

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, digitigrade, digitigrade mammal.

placental mammal (noun)	plantigrade mammal (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings

Difference between placental mammal and plantigrade mammal

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