Ornithorhynchus


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ornithorhynchus

(ˌɔːnɪθəʊˈrɪŋkəs)
n
(Animals) the technical name for duck-billed platypus
[C19: New Latin, from ornitho- + Greek rhunkhos bill]
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Noun1.ornithorhynchus - type genus of the family OrnithorhynchidaeOrnithorhynchus - type genus of the family Ornithorhynchidae
genus Ornithorhynchus
mammal genus - a genus of mammals
family Ornithorhynchidae, Ornithorhynchidae - platypus
duckbilled platypus, duck-billed platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus, duckbill - small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae
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And it is in fresh water that we find seven genera of Ganoid fishes, remnants of a once preponderant order: and in fresh water we find some of the most anomalous forms now known in the world, as the Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren, which, like fossils, connect to a certain extent orders now widely separated in the natural scale.
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In the dusk of the evening I took a stroll along a chain of ponds, which in this dry country represented the course of a river, and had the good fortune to see several of the famous Ornithorhynchus paradoxus.
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varius Greater Glider Petauroides volans Horse Equus caballus Koala Phascolarctos cinereus Little Penguin Eudyptula minor Marsupial Lion Tylacoleo carnifex microbats various small insectivorous bats Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus rats Rattus fuscipes, R.
Ecological role of large mammalian predators in south-east Australia
PLATYPUS Newport Museum and Art Gallery Ornithorhynchus Anatinus, to give it its scientific name, is from Australia and is one of only five living mammals which lay eggs.
Weird and wonderful; FEATURE What's in the museum? Well, some rather odd things, it turns out. A new exhibition called Stuffed, Pickled & Pinned aims to showcase some of the unusual artifacts to be found in Wales' small institutions..
The syntenic X-chromosome region of three marsupial species (wallaby, Macropus eugenii; Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii, and opossum, Monodelphis domestica) and one monotreme (platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus) genome, focusing on the chromosomal region around the HPRT locus, has been systematically searched and no sequences similar to PLAC1 have been found.
Placenta-specific protein 1 is conserved throughout the Placentalia under purifying selection

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