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ornithorhynchus
[ awr-nuh-thuh-ring-kuhs ]
noun
- the platypus.
ornithorhynchus
/ ˌɔːnɪθəʊˈrɪŋkəs /
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ornithorhynchus1
1790–1800; < New Latin: genus name, equivalent to ornitho- ornitho- + -rhynchus < Greek rhýnchos bill
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ornithorhynchus1
C19: New Latin, from ornitho- + Greek rhunkhos bill
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Example Sentences
Our next subject is named The Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus, and is a very singular quadruped, remarkable for its structure.
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It is much more nearly paralleled in the little group of Monotremata allied to the living Ornithorhynchus.
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Turtles have beaks, and there is one species of mammal (the ornithorhynchus) which has a bill like that of a duck.
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Your African plant seems to be a vegetable Ornithorhynchus, and indeed much more than that.
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In the Echidnidae, but not in Ornithorhynchus, the central portion of the acetabulum is unossified as in birds.
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