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Monotreme

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Noun

1. egg-laying mammal, monotreme

the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Monotreme

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noun
any mammal of the primitive order Monotremata, of Australia and New Guinea: egg-laying toothless animals with a single opening (cloaca) for the passage of eggs or sperm, faeces, and urine. The group contains only the echidnas and the platypus

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Monotreme

see synonyms of monotreme
noun
any of the lowest order (Monotremata) of mammals, consisting of the platypus and the echidnas, which lay eggs and have a single opening for the digestive and urinary tracts and genital organs

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Monotreme

see synonyms of monotreme
n.
Any of various egg-laying mammals of the order Monotremata of Australia and New Guinea, whose only living members are the platypus and the echidnas.

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