placenta
An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus…An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
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Meaning
2 sensesAn organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
Plazenta, Mutterkuchen
плаце́нтаplacénta, после́дposléd
плаце́нтаplacénta
In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
семяно́сецsemjanósec
that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form
Examples
8 sentencesWhat complications can affect the placenta?
Early removal of the placenta is very dangerous.
The role of the placenta is to nourish the foetus.
Several companies currently produce cosmetic products containing extracts of animal placenta.
A developing embryo connects to the placenta via the umbilical cord.
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from New Latin placenta (literally “flat cake”), an ellipsis of phrasesLearned borrowing from New Latin placenta (literally “flat cake”), an ellipsis of phrases such as placenta uterī (literally “womb cake”) and placenta uterīna (literally “uterine cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth. Doublet of palacsinta and palatschinke.
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Forms
plural: placentae / placentasSynonyms
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11 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular