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‖ ornithorhynchus|ˌɔːnɪθəʊˈrɪŋkəs, ɔːnaɪθəʊ-|
[mod. f. ornitho- + Gr. ῥύγχος bill.]
An aquatic mammal of Australia, the duck-billed platypus or duck-mole (O. paradoxus or anatinus), the only species of its genus and family in the order Monotremata; it has glossy dark-brown fur, webbed feet and bill like a duck's; it lays eggs like a bird.
1800Phil. Trans. XC. 432 My opportunities of examining the Ornithorhynchus were procured through Sir Joseph Banks. 1820J. Oxley Jrnl. 2 Exp. N.S. Wales 284 We saw numbers of the ornithorynchus, or water mole, in the river. 1864Owen Power of God 46 The anomalous Ornithorhynchus, with the tail of a beaver, the skin of a mole, the beak of a duck, and the spurs of a cock. 1870Courthope Paradise of Birds 70 For he gave to the Earth the first animal birth, and conceived the Ornithorhyncus. 1892J. A. Thomson Outlines Zool. 566 The mammary glands in the female Ornithorhynchus open on a flat patch. |
