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PROTOTHERIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prototherian mean? 

PROTOTHERIAN (noun)
  The noun PROTOTHERIAN has 1 sense:

1. primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guineaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PROTOTHERIAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)

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

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


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