Usually means: Organ connecting fetus to mother.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. placenta: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. placenta: Merriam-Webster
  3. placenta: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. placenta: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. placenta: Collins English Dictionary
  6. placenta: Vocabulary.com
  7. Placenta, placenta: Wordnik
  8. placenta: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Placenta, Placenta: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. placenta: Wiktionary
  11. placenta: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. placenta: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. placenta: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. placenta: Dictionary.com
  15. placenta: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. placenta: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Placenta (food), Placenta (journal), Placenta: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Placenta: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. placenta: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. placenta: Rhymezone
  21. Placenta: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. placenta: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. placenta: FreeDictionary.org
  24. placenta: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. placenta: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. placenta-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. placenta: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. placenta: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Placenta: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. Placenta: Merck Manuals
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Placenta: Anatomy of the Human Body
  9. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  11. Placenta: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  12. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  13. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  14. placenta: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  15. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  16. -placenta, placenta: Medical dictionary
  17. Placenta: Drug Medical Dictionary
  18. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Placenta: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  6. placenta: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. placenta: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See placentae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) 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.
noun:  (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

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