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Egg-laying mammal
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monotreme
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context palynology of a pollen grain English) Having a single trema, or aperture. n. (context zoology English) A mammal that lays eggs and has a single urogenital and digestive orifice. Only the echidnas and platypuses are included in this group.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria [syn: egg-laying mammal ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs ( Prototheria ) instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials ( Metatheria ) and placental mammals ( Eutheria ). The only surviving examples of monotremes are all indigenous to Australia and New Guinea , although ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monotreme \Mon"o*treme\, n. [Cf. F. monotr[`e]me.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Monotremata.
Usage examples of monotreme.
Paleontologists in Australia have recently discovered the jawbone of a Cretaceous monotreme called Kollikodon ritchiei, 120 million years old.
Some of the most primitive mammals were the little-known multituberculates, who may have been ancestral to the monotremes or could have arisen independently.
Mammals, marsupials, monotremes, birds, reptiles, worms, insects, arachnids, crustaceans, planaria, nematodes, protists, fungi, even a horticultural center.
Mammals, marsupials, monotremes, birds, reptiles, worms, insects, arachnids, crustaceans, planaria, nematodes, protists, fungi, even a horticultural center.
Some of the most primitive mammals were the little-known multituberculates, who may have been ancestral to the monotremes or could have arisen independently.
The offspring may eventually be packaged for release within a protective eggshell, together with an energy supply in the form of yolkÂas in all birds, many reptiles, and monotreme mammals (the platypus and echidnas of Australia and New Guinea).