Crossword clues for platypus
platypus
- Toothless Aussie mammal
- Mammalian layer
- Creature named for its flat feet
- Odd-looking animal
- Mammal with a bill
- Extremely goofy duck-billed creature
- Duck-billed mammal
- Duck-billed egg-laying mammal
- Duck-billed Australian mammal
- Duck-billed Aussie river mammal
- Duck-billed animal from Australia
- Duck-billed animal
- Small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet
- Only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae
- Duckbill
- Odd creature with tail also includes a tailless variety
- Flat-tailed animal also embodies a tailless sort
- Aquatic creature — supply at sea: about a ton
- Australian mammal with large bill and webbed feet
- Duck-billed creature
- Egg-laying mammal
- Egg-laying mammal of Australia
- Duck-billed critter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Duck \Duck\, n. [OE. duke, doke. See Duck, v. t. ]
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(Zool.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatin[ae], family Anatid[ae].
Note: The genera and species are numerous. They are divided into river ducks and sea ducks. Among the former are the common domestic duck ( Anas boschas); the wood duck ( Aix sponsa); the beautiful mandarin duck of China ( Dendronessa galeriliculata); the Muscovy duck, originally of South America ( Cairina moschata). Among the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc.
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A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod. --Milton. Bombay duck (Zo["o]l.), a fish. See Bummalo. Buffel duck, Spirit duck. See Buffel duck. Duck ant (Zo["o]l.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests in trees. Duck barnacle. (Zo["o]l.) See Goose barnacle. Duck hawk. (Zo["o]l.)
In the United States: The peregrine falcon.
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In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard.
Duck mole (Zo["o]l.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole.
To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets; hence:
To play at ducks and drakes, with property, to throw it away heedlessly or squander it foolishly and unprofitably.
Lame duck. See under Lame.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action with a bill resembling that of a duck, that has a mole-like body, a tail resembling that of a beaver, a waterproof pelt, and flat webbed feet — males have poisonous spurs on the inside of the back legs; ''Ornithorhynchus anatinus''
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: duckbill, duckbilled platypus, duck-billed platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus]
Wikipedia
The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), also known as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth. The animal is the sole living representative of its family ( Ornithorhynchidae) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of related species have been found in the fossil record.
The unusual appearance of this egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal baffled European naturalists when they first encountered it, with some considering it an elaborate hoax. It is one of the few venomous mammals, the male platypus having a spur on the hind foot that delivers a venom capable of causing severe pain to humans. The unique features of the platypus make it an important subject in the study of evolutionary biology and a recognisable and iconic symbol of Australia; it has appeared as a mascot at national events and is featured on the reverse of its 20-cent coin. The platypus is the animal emblem of the state of New South Wales.
Until the early 20th century, it was hunted for its fur, but it is now protected throughout its range. Although captive breeding programs have had only limited success and the platypus is vulnerable to the effects of pollution, it is not under any immediate threat.
Platypus was a progressive rock / jazz-fusion supergroup that consisted of members from Dream Theater, King's X and Dixie Dregs. The group was formed in 1997 and disbanded in 2000. Tabor, Myung and Morgenstein would continue working together as The Jelly Jam.
Platypus may refer to any of:
Platypus is a horizontal scrolling shooter game created by Anthony Flack. The player flies an antiquated spacecraft (the last of the fictional F-27 Platypus fleet) attempting to defend planet Mungola from Colossatropolis, which has become so overcrowded that its inhabitants are taking over Mungola for space and resources. The game uses a 'Level-Area' structure, with five areas in one level. The player scores depending on the percent of primary targets and transport carriers killed.
Platypus is a weevil genus in the subfamily Platypodinae.
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 yolkas 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.