placentary
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
placentary (not comparable)
- Relating to the placenta.
- the placentary system of classification
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Noun edit
placentary (plural placentaries)
- (botany) The projecting line or ridge formed by the union of several placentas.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “placentary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)