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Placental   Listen
adjective
Placental  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.
2.
(Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Placentalia.





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"Placental" Quotes from Famous Books



... not merely sexual, morphological peculiarities. Thus horses form a species, because the group of animals to which that name is applied is distinguished from all others in the world by the following constantly associated characters. They have 1. A vertebral column; 2. Mammae; 3. A placental embryo; 4. Four legs; 5. A single well-developed toe in each foot provided with a hoof; 6. A bushy tail; and 7. Callosities on the inner sides of both the fore and the hind legs. The asses, again, form a distinct species, because, with the same characters, as far as the fifth in ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley


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