The Collaborative International Dictionary
Duck-billed platypus \Duck"-billed` plat"y*pus\, a. same as Duck Mole, under Duck..
Syn: duck mole, duckbill, duck-bill platypus, platypus. [PJC]
Wiktionary
n. The platypus
WordNet
n. small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae [syn: platypus, duckbill, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus]
Usage examples of "duck-billed platypus".
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.
The brightest cephalopods are no closer to the oysters than you are to a duck-billed platypus.