| 单词 | duck-billed platypus |
| 释义 | duck-billed platypus (once / 246236 pages) n WORD FAMILY duck-billed platypus USAGE EXAMPLESEchidnas are one of only two Australian mammals that lay eggs - the other is the duck-billed platypus. BBC(Nov 18, 2016) As for us mammals, only two types lay eggs: the duck-billed platypus and the echidna. National Geographic(Jan 21, 2016) "They're relatives of salamanders in the same way that the duck-billed platypus is a distant relative of ours," she said. BBC(Mar 23, 2015) 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, duckbill, duckbilled platypus, platypus egg-laying mammal, monotreme the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria |
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