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plantigrade vs placental

placental vs plantigrade

plantigrade and placental both are nouns.

plantigrade and placental both are adjectives.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
plantigrade Yes Yes No No
placental Yes Yes No No
As nouns, placental is a hypernym of plantigrade; that is, placental is a word with a broader meaning than plantigrade:
  • plantigrade: an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings
  • placental: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
Other hypernyms of plantigrade include eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental mammal.
plantigrade (noun) placental (noun)
an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
plantigrade (adjective) placental (adjective)
(of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta
Difference between plantigrade and placental

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