platypus

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
platypus /ˈplatɪpəs/ (also duck-billed platypus)

▶noun (pl. platypuses) a semiaquatic egg-laying Australian mammal with a sensitive pliable bill like that of a duck and webbed feet with venomous spurs. [Ornithorhynchus anatinus.]

– origin C18: mod. L., from Gk platupous ‘flat-footed’.

'platypus' also found in these Oxford entries:

bill - duckbill - duck-billed platypus - monotreme - platy-

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