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Definition of Eutherian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria. "Eutherian mammals"
2. Noun. Mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials.
Generic synonyms: Mammal, Mammalian
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Specialized synonyms: 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, Plantigrade Mammal, Digitigrade, Digitigrade Mammal
Derivative terms: Placental
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
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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