placental mammal vs primate

primate vs placental mammal

placental mammal and primate both are nouns.

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

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

placental mammal: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
primate: any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

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

placental mammal (noun)	primate (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
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Difference between placental mammal and primate

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