Usually means: Arrangement of ovules within ovary.
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  1. placentation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. placentation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. placentation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. placentation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. placentation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  16. placentation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (placentation)

noun:  (biology) The local fusion of the embryonic stage of an animal to its parent for physiological exchange to promote the growth and development of the young; involves a placenta in non-egglaying mammals.
noun:  (botany) The manner in which the seeds are attached to the placenta within the ovary locules.

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