NOUN
- small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae
How To Use duck-billed platypus In A Sentence
- It is home to possums, pelicans, the duck-billed platypus, the kookaburra, kangaroos and wombats, to name just those he found for us during our adventure into paradise.
- These exotic egg-laying animals are represented by just three species: the duck-billed platypus and two echidnas.
- Council member David A. Catania (I-At Large) calls the bifurcated system an unwieldy "duck-billed platypus. A $34 million crisis of confidence in D.C. schools
- A fully fledged Marrano represents as much a taxonomicl challenge to the historian as the duck-billed platypus did to a Victorian naturalist. Well i don't know if i'm wrong because she's only just gone
- The only other type of mammal to employ chemical warfare is the duck-billed platypus.
- There are only three living monotremes, the duck-billed platypus and two species of echidna, or ‘spiny anteaters’, such as the one shown at right.
- In addition to the solenodon, the only mammals that use venom today are the North American short-tailed shrew, the Eurasian water shrew, and the Australian duck-billed platypus.
- Mammals that use venom are rare - the duck-billed platypus, a few shrews and the odd solenodons of Cuba and Hispaniola.
- The duck-billed platypus is a truly bizarre creature.