placental mammal
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1. mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | mammal, mammalian, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bull, |
| definition | : | mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cow, |
| definition | : | mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull' (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | yearling, |
| definition | : | an animal in its second year (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | buck, |
| definition | : | mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope) (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | doe, |
| definition | : | mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck' (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | insectivore, |
| definition | : | small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | aquatic mammal, |
| definition | : | whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | carnivore, |
| definition | : | a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | fissipedia, |
| definition | : | in some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | aardvark, ant bear, anteater, orycteropus afer, |
| definition | : | nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bat, chiropteran, |
| definition | : | nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gnawing mammal, lagomorph, |
| definition | : | relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gnawer, rodent, |
| definition | : | relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ungulata, |
| definition | : | in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates) (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | hoofed mammal, ungulate, |
| definition | : | any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | unguiculata, |
| definition | : | in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceans (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | coney, cony, das, dassie, hyrax, |
| definition | : | any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | pachyderm, |
| definition | : | any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | edentate, |
| definition | : | primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | anteater, pangolin, scaly anteater, |
| definition | : | toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | primate, |
| definition | : | any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | tree shrew, |
| definition | : | insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | colugo, flying cat, flying lemur, |
| definition | : | arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | plantigrade, plantigrade mammal, |
| definition | : | an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | digitigrade, digitigrade mammal, |
| definition | : | an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | placental, |
| definition | : | pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | placental, |
| definition | : | pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta (adj.all) |
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