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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

有胎盘哺乳动物

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yǒu tāi pán bǔ rǔ dòng wù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Placental mammal/pləˈsɛn.təl ˈmæm.əl/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"人类属于有胎盘哺乳动物。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A mammal of a major group that includes all mammals except monotremes and marsupials, characterized by having a placenta which develops during pregnancy in the uterus, feeding the embryo through the mother's blood supply.

    "Most living mammal species, including humans, whales, and elephants, belong to the group of placental mammals."
  2. 2

    An individual animal belonging to the infraclass Placentalia or Eutheria.

    "The placental mammal gives birth to more fully developed offspring compared to marsupials."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Modern Latin placenta (flat cake, from Greek plakous) combined with English mammal (from Latin mamma, breast). The taxonomic concept and term emerged in 19th-century comparative anatomy to designate viviparous mammals possessing a complex placenta.

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