[
US
/ˈpɫætəˌpʊs/
]
[ UK /plˈætɪpəs/ ]
[ UK /plˈætɪpəs/ ]
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 platypus In A Sentence
- And find out why the platypus is wearing a lampshade on hisitsher head. Howard Hughes vs. Hunan Hubero and Szechuan Sméagol
- In the cartoon, the guys travel the world for encounters with creatures that are familiar (crocodiles, worms, a platypus and pigeons) and some not so familiar (a conehead katydid, a tiger quoll and the recently discovered colossal squid). Family Winter Preview
- The duckbill platypus is a current member of the ancient monotreme group.
- The egg-laying platypus and its cousin, the anteater, along with marsupials, make up the most primitive group of living mammals.
- XD I'm thinking it's going to be platypusclub dot com, but platypus is sort of a hard word. / nothing compares to a quiet evening alone /
- The platypus uses its electro-sensitive bill to locate its food in the water.
- Do you think the platypus has a placenta, as a human mother would have when she is pregnant?
- Explain to the children that the tarantula and duckbill platypus began as ideas in the mind of God. On the Sixth Day, God Created the Trumpet
- Male platypuses have a sharp spur attached to each ankle.
- The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.