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monotreme

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mon=o=treme

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun monotreme has 1 sense

monotreme(n = noun.animal) egg-laying mammal - the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria; Array

is a kind of prototherian

has particulars: anteater, echidna, spiny anteater, anteater, echidna, spiny anteater, duck-billed platypus, duckbill, duckbilled platypus, ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus

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CIDE DICTIONARY

monotreme, n. [Cf. F. monotrème.].

One of the Monotremata. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

monotreme, n. any mammal of the order Monotremata, native to Australia and New Guinea, including the duckbill and spiny anteater, laying large yolky eggs through a common opening for urine, faeces, etc.

Etymology

MONO- + Gk trema -matos hole

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