| 单词 | platypus |
| 释义 | platypus (once / 30463 pages) n What animal has a duck bill, fuzzy kitten belly, beaver tail, and poisonous webbed feet? A platypus! A platypus is a wacky mammal that mainly lives in the water off Australia. Although a platypus is a mammal, it lays eggs. Because of its distinctive bill, the platypus is often called the duck billed platypus. It's an unusual animal, defying many of the usual characteristics of a mammal — the platypus lays eggs, is aquatic, has a tail like a beaver's, is venomous like a snake, and has feet like an otter. In fact, when scientists from Europe first discovered the platypus, many of them thought it was a hoax. The Greek root, platypous, means "flat-footed." WORD FAMILYplatypus: platypuses USAGE EXAMPLES"Nothing like this is seen in any other fossil vertebrate and the platypus is the only modern land-living vertebrate that does anything similar." BBC(Dec 22, 2016) Platypus venom could pave the way for new treatments for type 2 diabetes, say Australian researchers. BBC(Nov 30, 2016) Trophy: Called the Civil War, the game’s unofficial prize is the Platypus Trophy, awarded each year to the alumni association of the winning team. Washington Times(Nov 22, 2016) n small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae Syn|Hyper Ornithorhynchus anatinus, duck-billed platypus, duckbill, duckbilled platypus egg-laying mammal, monotreme the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。