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Monotremata   Listen
noun
Monotremata  n. pl.  (Zool.) A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds. The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck, and Echidna.





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"Monotremata" Quotes from Famous Books



... Australia consists, as is well known, wholly of the lowest forms—the Marsupials and Monotremata—except only a few species of mice. This is accounted for by the complete isolation of the country from the Asiatic continent during the whole period of the development of the higher animals. At some earlier epoch the ancestral marsupials, which ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace


Words linked to "Monotremata" :   subclass Prototheria, family Tachyglossidae, family Ornithorhynchidae, order Monotremata, animal order


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