| 单词 | duck-billed platypus |
| 释义 | > as lemmasduck-billed platypus duck-billed platypus n. the Ornithorhynchus of Australia, a monotrematous mammal having a horny beak resembling the bill of a duck. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > [noun] > group Prototheria or Monotremata > duck-billed platypus platypus1799 ornithorhynchus1800 water mole1800 paradox1815 duck-bill1840 tambreet1840 duck-billed platypus1847 duck-mole1875 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §317 The Ornithorhyncus or Duck-billed Platypus, the Water Mole of the Colonist. duck-billed platypus More fully duck-billed platypus. A semiaquatic, burrowing, monotreme mammal, Ornithorhynchus anatinus (family Ornithorhynchidae), inhabiting lakes and streams in Tasmania and eastern Australia, having brown fur, a sensitive, pliable bill shaped like that of a duck, webbed feet with (in the male) venomous spurs, and a flattened tail, and laying leathery eggs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > [noun] > group Prototheria or Monotremata > duck-billed platypus platypus1799 ornithorhynchus1800 water mole1800 paradox1815 duck-bill1840 tambreet1840 duck-billed platypus1847 duck-mole1875 1799 G. Shaw Vivarium Naturæ, or Naturalist’s Misc. X. Pl. 385 Explan. The Duckbilled Platypus. 1799 G. Shaw Vivarium Naturæ, or Naturalist’s Misc. X. Pl. 386 The Platypus is a native of Australia or New Holland, and is at present in the possession of Mr. Dobson, so much distinguished by his exquisite manner of preparing specimens of vegetable anatomy. 1832 J. Bischoff Sketch Hist. Van Diemen's Land iii. 52 The skins of the..oppossum, tiger-cat, and platthypus, or ornythorhyncus paradoxus, are exported. 1832 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 122 533 Several young Platypi were obtained. 1850 W. Gates Recoll. Van Dieman's Land 212 It has a mouth very greatly resembling a duck's bill, and is sometimes known by that name, but more generally by that of platipus. 1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria I. 251 The duck-billed platypus makes no nests, but lives in holes on the banks of rivers. 1915 W. J. Wye Souvenirs Sunny South 34 Her velvety coat, that had never known brands, shone soft as the platypus fur. 1958 Life 14 Apr. 57/1 For 10 years New York's Bronx Zoo kept in pampered luxury a pair of duckbilled platypuses named Cecil and Penelope, the only platypuses in captivity outside their native Australia. 1976 E. Worrell Things that Sting 22 In the summer months the male Platypus carries venom in the hollow curved spur of each hind foot. 2000 Australian (Nexis) 5 June e6 Earth Sanctuaries has even had success at breeding platypi in semi-captivity in dams. < as lemmas |
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