Duck-billed mammal

Usage examples of platypus.

I thank you: Blaxland did everything that was kind and hospitable - he desires his best compliments, by the way - and we saw the emu, various kinds of kangaroo, the echidna - good Lord, the echidnal - the small fat grey animal that sleeps high up in gum-trees and that very absurdly claims to be a bear, a great many of the parrot tribe, a nameless monitory lizard, all that we had hoped to see and more, except for the platypus.

I can put out the duckbilled platypus ashtray my mates gave me when I was leaving the Outback?

No marsupial freaks on Korai, no platypi or swimming birds or tree-climbing kangaroos or flying fish.

Not only were there more koala bears than they could have imagined, there were dingos, kookaburras, kangaroos, and evena platypus.

As with the Squire, however, Jonathan would find that the Moon Man liked the right sorts of things: eating apple pie and cream for breakfast, capering with platypi oa the riverbanks, strolling along between hedgerows, admiring marbles with the Squire and, it turned out in time, investigating the mysteries of kaleidoscopes and paperweights.

There were strange creatures unlike any elsewhere: huge relatives of the platypus, giant tortoises the size of family cars, land-going crocodiles.

We've just finished sequencing and comparing the allogenomes of echidnas and, of course, platypuses.

He quickly became a leading expert on all kinds of animals living and extinct—from platypuses, echidnas, and other newly discovered marsupials to the hapless dodo and the extinct giant birds called moas that had roamed New Zealand until eaten out of existence by the Maoris.

The offspring may eventually be packaged for release within a protective eggshell, together with an energy supply in the form of yolk—as in all birds, many reptiles, and monotreme mammals (the platypus and echidnas of Australia and New Guinea).

She had contracts to go through for Hermione, Rannaldini, and now Rachel-and darling Wolfie, having sent her a boomerang and a furry duck-billed platypus for her birthday, deserved a long chatty letter.

I was thinking of all manner of things, and along what I like to refer to as the tortured paths of my mind, I thought of the duck-billed platypus.

He also gave passing thought as to whether, in fact, the duck-billed platypus was a simple outgrowth of nature or a demented joke on the part of a higher power, and if that were the case, then just who might that higher power be and what did that imply about the structure of the universe.

An ancient ramscoop wallowing along through space and time (a lot of time, that duck-billed platypus of the spaceways!

Linda, from a mixture of politeness and interest, looked for the second time at the tall ostriches, the birds of paradise, the humming-birds brilliant and fragile as flowers, the lone, duck-billed platypus.

She was an old ram-scoop, the duck-billed platypus of the spaceways.