Placenta
- n. The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.
- n. The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.