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Placenta

//pləˈsɛntə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus wordnet
  3. 3
    In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
  4. 4
    that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form wordnet

Etymology

Elision for phrases such as New Latin placenta uterī (“womb cake”), placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth. Doublet of palacsinta and palatschinke.

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