placental
- noun
- /pləˈsɛntəl/
- Specialized
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mamífero placentario
- There are marsupials that look like placentals.
- placentals (mammals)
Examples
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An ancestor of all the other living mammals (marsupials and placentals) took a different route; however.
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Furthermore, marsupial moles looking like golden moles and thylacines looking like dogs are only the two best examples of marsupials resembling placentals.
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So as far as we know, the Australian continent had no placental mammals except Homo sapiens until the Europeans came.
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Against Evolution, an author named Robert Byers groups together the placentals with the marsupials that look like them into the same kind.
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The researchers identified several species of placental mammals in the fossil record that thrived during the Eocene era.
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Unlike monotremes, all placental mammals give birth to live young that have developed inside the mother's uterus.
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Biologists categorize animals like elephants and whales as placental because they possess a placenta during their reproductive cycle.
Synonyms
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A warm-blooded animal that has a placenta to feed its unborn young
A mammal that has a placenta and nourishes its young before birth
A mammal that has a placenta and gives birth to developed young
Compounds
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A warm-blooded animal that has a placenta to feed its unborn young
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word placental comes from the Latin placenta, which meant 'cake' because the organ is flat like a cake. So a placental is an animal that has a placenta to feed its young before birth.