EUTHERIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eutherian mean? 

• EUTHERIAN (noun)
  The noun EUTHERIAN has 1 sense:

1. mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

  Familiarity information: EUTHERIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• EUTHERIAN (adjective)
  The adjective EUTHERIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria

  Familiarity information: EUTHERIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUTHERIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal

Hypernyms ("eutherian" is a kind 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eutherian"):

gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)

digitigrade; digitigrade mammal (an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses)

plantigrade; plantigrade mammal (an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings)

proboscidean; proboscidian (massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk)

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)

tree shrew (insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout)

primate (any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet)

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)

edentate (primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America)

pachyderm (any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus)

coney; cony; das; dassie; hyrax (any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes)

unguiculate; unguiculate mammal (a mammal having nails or claws)

Unguiculata (in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceans)

hoofed mammal; ungulate (any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically)

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))

gnawing mammal; lagomorph (relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing)

bat; chiropteran (nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate)

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)

Fissipedia (in some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora)

carnivore (a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal)

aquatic mammal (whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals)

insectivore (small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals)

doe (mature female of mammals of which the male is called 'buck')

buck (mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope))

yearling (an animal in its second year)

cow (mature female of mammals of which the male is called 'bull')

bull (mature male of various mammals of which the female is called 'cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle)

farm animal; livestock; stock (any animals kept for use or profit)

Holonyms ("eutherian" is a member of...):

Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

• EUTHERIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

eutherian mammals

Pertainym:

Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Derivation:

Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)