Definition of placental mammal Placental mammal
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| placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | ||
| placental, eutherian, eutherian mammal | ||
| mammal, mammalian 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 | ||
| eutheria, subclass eutheria all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | ||
| farm animal, livestock, stock any animals kept for use or profit | ||
| bull a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment" | ||
| cow mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull' | ||
| yearling an animal in its second year | ||
| buck mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope) | ||
| doe mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck' | ||
| insectivore any organism that feeds mainly on insects | ||
| aquatic mammal whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals | ||
| carnivore any animal that feeds on flesh; "Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore"; "insectivorous plants are considered carnivores" | ||
| fissipedia in some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora | ||
| aardvark, orycteropus afer, ant bear, anteater nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata | ||
| chiropteran, bat (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit; "he was at bat when it happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats" | ||
| gnawing mammal, lagomorph relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing | ||
| gnawer, rodent relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing | ||
| ungulata 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) | ||
| hoofed mammal, ungulate any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically | ||
| unguiculata in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceans | ||
| unguiculate, unguiculate mammal a mammal having nails or claws | ||
| das, dassie, hyrax, cony, coney any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | ||
| pachyderm any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus | ||
| edentate primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America | ||
| pangolin, scaly anteater, anteater toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites | ||
| primate any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet | ||
| tree shrew insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout | ||
| colugo, flying lemur, flying cat 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 | ||
| proboscidean, proboscidian massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | ||
| plantigrade, plantigrade mammal an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings | ||
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