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The act of placing, or the state of being placed.

The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.

Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.

A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.

Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.

The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.

Having or producing a placenta.

Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.

Pleasing; amiable. [Obs.] "A placentious person." Fuller.

One who places or sets. Spenser.

promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance. Shipley. The king . . . annulled the royal placet. J. P. Peters.

Downy; bearing down.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Polygalaceæ) of which Polygala is the type.

rank, office, education, or profession. Pope. To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel. They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson.

Lace whose pattern includes one or more representations of baskets or bowls from which flowers spring.

A suborder of Gephyræa, having a cylindrical body with a terminal anal opening, and usually with one or two caudal gills.

Of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (Primulaceæ), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceæ), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.

To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like. The earl . . . was replaced in his government. Bacon.

The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.