Monotremata — noun coextensive with the subclass Prototheria • Syn: ↑order Monotremata • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Prototheria, ↑subclass Prototheria • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Monotremata — An order of egg laying mammals that have a cloaca or common chamber that receives digestive, urinary, and reproductive products; only Australia has such forms, the duck billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus) and the echidna (Tachyglossus). [mono + G.… … Medical dictionary
Monotremata — n. order of Australian egg laying mammals (Zoology) … English contemporary dictionary
animal order — noun the order of animals • Hypernyms: ↑order • Hyponyms: ↑Eubacteriales, ↑order Eubacteriales, ↑Pseudomonadales, ↑order Pseudomonadales, ↑Rickettsiales, ↑order … Useful english dictionary
monotreme — /mon euh treem /, n. any animal of the Monotremata, the most primitive order of mammals, characterized by certain birdlike and reptilian features, as hatching young from eggs, and having a single opening for the digestive, urinary, and genital… … Universalium
Monotreme — Monotremes[1] Temporal range: 123–0 Ma … Wikipedia
Platypus — For other uses, see Platypus (disambiguation). Platypus[1] Temporal range: 66–0 Ma … Wikipedia
Prototheria — Taxobox name = Prototherians fossil range = Early Cretaceous Recent image width = 200px image caption = Short beaked Echidna regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia subclassis = Prototheria subclassis authority = Gill, 1872… … Wikipedia
List of mammals of Indonesia — This is a list of mammals found in Indonesia. Contents 1 Order Monotremata (Monotremes) 1.1 Family Tachyglossidae (Echidnas) … Wikipedia
Sir David's long-beaked echidna — Sir David s long beaked echidna[1] Conservation status Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[ … Wikipedia