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Definition of Eutherian mammal
1. 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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eutherian Mammal
Literary usage of Eutherian mammal
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)
"Mammal possibly had the physical advance placed within its reach. The earliest
eutherian Mammal FIG. ..."
2. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"Diagrams to illustrate the arrangement of the female genital ducts in an Eutherian
Mammal. A. Rabbit. B. Man. 1. Ovary. 2. Oviducal funnel. 5. ..."
3. The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker (1900)
"From the purely zoological point of view man is a placenta! or eutherian mammal,
because he has breasts, because he is more or less covered with hair, ..."
4. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"Then follows the development of the chick, as an example of conditions in the
Sauropsida, and finally that of a eutherian mammal. The life history of the ..."
5. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"... or gnawing group of mammals, as having started probably in very ancient times
from some generalised group of eutherian mammal akin to the Insectivores. ..."
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