platypus in English

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a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal that frequents lakes and streams in eastern Australia. It has a sensitive pliable bill shaped like that of a duck, webbed feet with venomous spurs, and dense fur.
The only living monotremes are the platypuses and the echidnas.
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1. Make him the platypus.

2. Make him the platypus

3. And my other friend, the platypus

4. Someone's being attacked by a platypus bear!

5. One of the mascots was the platypus.

6. Why do I gotta be the platypus?

7. The duck-billed platypus is a truly bizarre creature.

8. The world's only monotremes are the platypus and the echidna.

9. The platypus propels itself with its webbed feet

10. The mystery with the platypus venom is why it evolved.

11. Platypuses has been used several times as a mascot: "Syd" the platypus was one of the three mascots chosen for the Sydney 2000 Olympics along with an echidna and a kookaburra, "Expo Oz" the platypus was the mascot for World Expo 88, which was held in Brisbane in 1988, and Hexley the platypus is the mascot for Apple Computer's BSD-based Darwin operating system, Mac OS X. The platypus has been featured in songs, such as Green Day's "Platypus (I Hate You)" and Mr. Bungle's "Platypus".

12. The duck-billed platypus is an even more astonishing animal.

13. The DLPs are produced by the immune system of the platypus.

14. Researchers just mapped the genome of a female platypus from Australia.

15. The platypus spends a great deal of its time looking for food.

16. The male platypus possesses on its hind legs a large, reversible spur.

17. At home both in water and on land, the platypus is amphibious.

18. The Animal: Platypus The Power : Electrolocation How It Works : Count your senses.

19. One of the mascots for the 2000 Olympics , in Australia , was the platypus.

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21. One must remember, too, that Patrick Barrington's literary platypus was herself employed in the Foreign Office!

22. Since the platypus lacks nipples, the pups suckle milk from the mother's abdominal skin.

23. The female platypus , like other mamals, feeds her babies with milk from her body.

24. The male of the duck-billed platypus has sharp poison-spurs on its hind legs.

25. The new study, published in Nature, shows the platypus as both evolutionary relic and pioneer.

26. Of course I have a sense of humor. I gave you the platypus, didn't I?

27. For this reason, scientists know less about the platypus than they would like to know.

28. The platypus is a duck-Billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying aquatic creature native to Australia

29. I would dream to do this in a monotreme, to find out if we could have a narcoleptic platypus.

30. Plato and a Platypus examines the classic categories of philosophy, with concepts explained or illustrated by jokes.

31. Su-32 (Su-27IB) Two-seat dedicated long-range strike variant with side-by-side seating in "platypus" nose.

32. The second species described,Segonzactis platypus n. gen., n. sp., stands out among the Condylanthidae Thenaria because of theEdwardsia- like configuration of its macrosepta.Segonzactis platypus may be considered a transitional form between endomyarian sea anemones with pedal disc and those without pedal disc.

33. Until the early 20th century humans hunted the platypus for its fur, but it is now protected throughout its range.

34. Like the platypus, the echidna has a low body temperature—between 30 and 32 °C (86 and 90 °F)—but, unlike the platypus, which shows no evidence of torpor or hibernation, the body temperature of the echidna may fall as low as 5 °C (41 °F).

35. There were once hundreds of monotreme species, but there are only five left: four species of echidnas and the duck-billed platypus.

36. Sometimes known as a duck-Billed platypus, this curious mammal combines the characteristics of many different species in one

37. The platypus, along with its cousins the echidnas, is an egg-laying mammal yet suckles its young on milk!

38. The Cornetto is the platypus of the m Matthew Manchester explains the Cornetto, a musical instrument that flourished from the medieval period to the baroque.

39. The substrate composted with sawdust and cotton seed hull supplemented with calcium carbonate have been proved to be suitable for P. platypus cultivation in Kunming.

40. Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar – Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes is a book that explains basic philosophical concepts through classic jokes.

41. Both the platypus and the echidna lay soft-shelled eggs, and both feed their young with milk that leaks out through their skin.

42. Fish, some amphibians and primitiveegg-laying mammals such as the duck-billed platypus use similar pitsto pick up electric fields generated by nearby animals.

43. A member of the Monotremata, an order of primitive egg-laying mammals restricted to Australia and New Guinea and consisting of only the platypus and the echidna. Sentencedict.com

44. The term was coined by Charles Darwin in his On the Origin of Species from 1859, when discussing Ornithorhynchus (the platypus) and Lepidosiren (the South American lungfish): ...

45. A previous study of early monotreme fossils had suggested the platypus and the echidna diverged more than 110 million years ago, far longer than the genetic analysis indicates.

46. The echidna is such a unique animal that it is classified in a special class of mammals known as monotremes, which it shares only with the platypus.

47. Simner and Ward (200 set about inducing TOT states in the lab by showing 6 participants with this rare form of synaesthesia pictures of unusual objects, such as a platypus.

48. As a result, there are many animal species that occur here and nowhere else in the world, such as the platypus, kangaroo, echidna, and koala.Australia has 516 national parks to protect its unique plants and animals.

49. Meanwhile, Perry the Platypus (Dee Bradley Baker) performs his act as a "secret Agent P", being informed by Major Francis Monogram (Jeff "Swampy" Marsh) that Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Dan Povenmire) has bought 80% of the Tri-State Area's tin foil.

50. The electrostatic potential across the surfaces of these Aromatases highlighted likely variations to the protein-protein interactions of these enzymes with both redox partner cytochrome P450 reductase and possibly homodimerization in the case of the platypus, which has been postulated for the human aromatase enzyme.