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PLATYPUS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does platypus mean?

• PLATYPUS (noun)
The noun PLATYPUS has 1 sense:

1. small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae

Familiarity information: PLATYPUS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PLATYPUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

duck-billed platypus; duckbilled platypus; Ornithorhynchus anatinus; platypus; duckbill

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

egg-laying mammal; monotreme (the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria)

Holonyms ("platypus" is a member of...):

genus Ornithorhynchus; Ornithorhynchus (type genus of the family Ornithorhynchidae)

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