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)

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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; duckbill; duckbilled platypus; Ornithorhynchus anatinus; platypus

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)