单词 | placentalian |
释义 | placentalianadj.n. Now rare. A. adj. Of or relating to the division Placentalia; eutherian. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Placentalia > [adjective] monodelphous1854 placentalian1857 placentary1864 monodelphian1869 monodelphic1883 1857 L. Agassiz Ess. Classif. i, in Contrib. Nat. Hist. U.S.A. I. 87 (note) Even the placentalian and non-placentalian Mammalia agree with one another in what is essential in their development. 1889 Amer. Naturalist 23 926 The preplacental absorption of food by the embryos of placentalian mammals. 1930 Q. Rev. Biol. 5 181/2 Notoryctes typhlops, a digging marsupial type adapted like Talpa among the placentalian insectivores. 1958 F. E. Zenner Dating Past (ed. 4) 349 The evolution of the placentalian mammals with their great variety of forms illustrates the duration of this period more adequately than the less rapidly evolving Tertiary mollusca and plants. B. n. A placental mammal, a eutherian. rare. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Placentalian, a. and n. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1857 |
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