Placenta

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 313

pla-sen'ta, n.; pi. -tje, -te. (Anat.) soft, spongy disk which connects the mother the fetus in the womb; afterbirth. (Bot.) The of a plant or fruit to which the seeds are attached. — Placen'tal, a. Pert, to, or having, etc. — n. mammal having, etc.