Definitions for monotreme

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monotreme mon·o·treme

Spelling: [mon-uh-treem]

IPA: /ˈmɒn əˌtrim/

Monotreme is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in monotreme (eemmnoort).

Definitions for monotreme

noun

1. 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 organs, comprising only the duckbill and the echidnas of Australia and New Guinea.

Origin of monotreme

1825-35; French monotrème New Latin monotrema, assumed singular of Monotremata, neuter plural of monotrematus monotrematous

Examples for monotreme

One monotreme egg represents more economy and saving than a thousand eggs of a worm.

Pseu′dodont, having false teeth, as a monotreme; Pseu′dodox, false.

Fig. 25 shows the male genito-urinary tract and the cloaca in the monotreme, Platypus anatinus.

Moreover, it requires a large amount of material to form a mammalian egg, such as that of the monotreme.

That bone is known in a separate state in reptiles and, I think, in monotreme mammals.