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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The highest of three primary divisions of mammals, or subclasses of the class Mammalia (the other two being Didelphia and Ornithodelphia); placental mammals, or Placentalia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) The group that includes all ordinary or placental mammals; the Placentalia. See
mammalia .
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