Word Meanings - PLACENTALIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.

Related words: (words related to PLACENTALIA)

• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• MAMMALIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• MAMMALIA
  The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother. Note: Mammalia are divided into threes subclasses; --I. Placentalia. This subclass embraces all the
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• PLACENTATION
  The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
• ABOVEDECK
  On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• DIVISION
  The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state
• PLACENTAL
  Of or pertaining to the Placentalia. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.
• PLACENTALIA
  A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
• INDIVISION
  A state of being not divided; oneness. Bp. Hall.
• RECORDERSHIP
  The office of a recorder.
• APLACENTATA
  Mammals which have no placenta.
• XANTHOSE
  An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.