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adj
Belonging or pertaining to the group Eutheria, comprising the mammals more closely related to animals like humans and rodents than to marsupials.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
An animal of the group Eutheria.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: placental, placental mammal, eutherian mammal
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Broader terms: mammal, mammalian
Narrower terms: livestock, stock, farm animal, bull, cow, yearling, buck, doe, insectivore, aquatic mammal, carnivore, Fissipedia, aardvark, ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer, bat, chiropteran, lagomorph, gnawing mammal, rodent, gnawer, Ungulata, ungulate, hoofed mammal, Unguiculata, unguiculate, unguiculate mammal, hyrax, coney, cony, dassie, das, pachyderm, edentate, pangolin, scaly anteater, primate, tree shrew, flying lemur, flying cat, colugo, proboscidean, proboscidian, plantigrade mammal, plantigrade, digitigrade mammal, digitigrade
History
From Eutheria, from Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “good, true”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).
