placental mammal

Questions about placental mammal

What does placental mammal mean?

placental mammal means "mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials".

What is another word for placental mammal?

Close synonyms include placental, eutherian, eutherian mammal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is placental mammal a common word?

placental mammal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.