Definition of Eutherian

1. Noun. Mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials.


2. Adjective. Of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria. "Eutherian mammals"
Partainyms: Eutheria
Derivative terms: Eutheria

Definition of Eutherian

1. Adjective. belonging or pertaining to the group Eutheria, comprising the mammals more closely related to animals like humans and rodents than to marsupials. ¹

2. Noun. a eutherian animal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eutherian

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eutherian

euthanised
euthanises
euthanising
euthanization
euthanizations
euthanize
euthanized
euthanizes
euthanizing
eutheism
euthenasia
euthenics
euthenist
euthenists
eutherapeutic
eutherian (current term)
eutherian mammal
eutherians
euthermic
euthiochroic
euthymia
euthymic
euthyneura
euthynteria
euthyroid
euthyroid sick syndrome
euthyroid sick syndromes
euthyroidism
euthyroids
euthyscope

Literary usage of Eutherian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Arboreal Man by Frederic Wood Jones (1916)
"There are metatherian convergent mimics of Carnivora, Rodentia, Insectivora, and of most other eutherian orders, but there is no metatherian convergent ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"But they must have separated from the eutherian stock after it had acquired a definite ... the two principal features of the eutherian as opposed to the ..."

3. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1896)
"The subsequent researches of Zuckerkandl have shown that a number of rudimentary convolutions in the eutherian brain—including the gyri ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1887)
"Following out this idea, it is shown how easily the transition from the Metatherian to the eutherian stage of tooth-change may have taken place, ..."

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