EUTHERIAN
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)
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"):
digitigrade; digitigrade mammal (an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses)
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)
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))
gnawer; gnawing animal; rodent (relatively small gnawing animals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)
gnawing mammal; lagomorph (relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing)
farm animal; livestock; stock (not used technically; 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)
Holonyms ("eutherian" is a member of...):
Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
• EUTHERIAN (adjective)
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)
