placental mammal

Noun
  1. Mammals having a placenta;
    All mammals except monotremes and marsupials (synset 101889397)
    is a type of: 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
    subtypes:
    • farm animal, livestock, stock - any animals kept for use or profit
    • bull - mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
    • 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 - small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
    • aquatic mammal - whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals
    • carnivore - a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
    • fissipedia - in some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora
    • aardvark, ant bear, anteater, orycteropus afer - nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
    • bat, chiropteran - nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
    • 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
    • coney, cony, das, dassie, hyrax - 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
    • anteater, pangolin, scaly 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 cat, flying lemur - 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
    • digitigrade, digitigrade mammal - an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
    belongs to: eutheria, subclass eutheria - all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
    same as: eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental

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