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placental

  • adjective

Of or pertaining to the placenta.

Other meanings

  1. Pertaining to the Placentalia, comprising of mammals that are not marsupials or monotremes.

Related words

  • anteplacental
  • diaplacental
  • interplacental
  • paraplacental
  • periplacental
  • pseudoplacental
  • subplacental
  • umbilicoplacental
  • zonoplacental
  • fetoplacental
  • retroplacental
  • transplacental

Word history

From Latin "placentalis".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “placental” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.