The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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She was carrying an unknown number of human placentas in a plastic bag when she was picked up, according to the police.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
The examples included an NPR story on eating human placentas, a practice that has been around for decades, and a 2017 documentary about a transgender teen on PBS.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
Some placentas have evolved to be disklike, some are leaf-shaped, some ring-shaped, heart-shaped; some are ridged, branched, labyrinthine, or weblike.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
Had someone looked at this patient’s placentas sooner, said Parast, her multiple stillbirths may have been prevented with treatment.
From Salon ● May 29, 2024
In 2006, some seven hundred new mothers found out that doctors had taken their placentas without consent to test for abnormalities that might help the hospital defend itself against future lawsuits over birth defects.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
