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Definition of Placental 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 Placental Mammal
Literary usage of Placental mammal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Mammalian Dentition by Thomas Wingate Todd (1918)
"Not all the foregoing features are truly primitive but taken together they clearly
distinguish the skull of a Marsupial from that of a placental Mammal. ..."
2. The Student's Manual of Geology by Joseph Beete Jukes (1872)
"... was a placental mammal, probably one of the non-ruminant ... and therefore of
the same division as our hippopotami and swine ; .mother placental mammal, ..."
3. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1896)
"In the non-placental mammal the fascia dentata (figs. ... In the placental mammal
as the corpus callosum extends, it pushes the repre- ..."
4. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1881)
"... a placental mammal ; of a placental ungulate or clawed mammal ; of the
quadrumana ; and finally of the human species (Herbert Spencer, I. 1 4 2). ..."
5. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"The egg of the placental mammal is extremely small and essentially yolkless, yet
many changes take place that seem to occur with reference to a large yolk ..."
6. An Introduction to the Mammalian Dentition by Thomas Wingate Todd (1918)
"Not all the foregoing features are truly primitive but taken together they clearly
distinguish the skull of a Marsupial from that of a placental Mammal. ..."
7. The Student's Manual of Geology by Joseph Beete Jukes (1872)
"... was a placental mammal, probably one of the non-ruminant ... and therefore of
the same division as our hippopotami and swine ; .mother placental mammal, ..."
8. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1896)
"In the non-placental mammal the fascia dentata (figs. ... In the placental mammal
as the corpus callosum extends, it pushes the repre- ..."
9. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1881)
"... a placental mammal ; of a placental ungulate or clawed mammal ; of the
quadrumana ; and finally of the human species (Herbert Spencer, I. 1 4 2). ..."
10. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"The egg of the placental mammal is extremely small and essentially yolkless, yet
many changes take place that seem to occur with reference to a large yolk ..."
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