Home › Words › E › eutherianeutherianeutherian means belonging or pertaining to the group Eutheria, comprising the mammals more closely related to animals like humans and rodents than to marsupials.EtymologyFrom Eutheria, from Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “good, true”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).adjBelonging or pertaining to the group Eutheria, comprising the mammals more closely related to animals like humans and rodents than to marsupials.nounAn animal of the group Eutheria.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.boreoeutherian 66% match — Any placental mammal of the clade, magnorder, or superorder Boreoeutheria. vs eutherian →metatherian 64% match — Belonging or pertaining to the infraclass Metatheria of marsupials. vs eutherian →therian 63% match — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic subclass Theria. vs eutherian →eureptilian 62% match — Belonging or relating to the Eureptilia. vs eutherian →tethytherian 60% match — Any of the clade Tethytheria of mammals, including elephants, dugongs, and manatees. vs eutherian →eutheriodont 60% match — Any therapsid of the clade Eutheriodontia. vs eutherian →euungulate 57% match — Any mammal of the mirorder Euungulata. vs eutherian →afrotherian 57% match — Belonging or pertaining to the superorder Afrotheria, which includes the elephants, aardvarks, golden moles, tenrecs, etc. vs eutherian →