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MONOTREME

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria

Synonyms:

egg-laying mammal; monotreme

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("monotreme" is a kind of...):

prototherian (primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monotreme"):

anteater; echidna; spiny anteater (a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia)

anteater; echidna; spiny anteater (a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea)

duck-billed platypus; duckbill; duckbilled platypus; Ornithorhynchus anatinus; platypus (small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae)

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