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placenta

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
placenta /pləˈsɛntə/

▶noun (pl. placentae /-tiː/ or placentas)

1 a flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.

2 Botany (in flowers) part of the ovary wall to which the ovules are attached.

– origin C17: from L., from Gk plakous, plakount- ‘flat cake’.

'placenta' also found in these Oxford entries:

abruption - afterbirth - funicle - placental - placenta praevia - placentation - trophoblast - umbilical cord

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