platypus
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- n small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae
- Penelope Platypus was one of those saucy females who like to keep a male on a string.
- For six years the earnest curators of New York's Bronx Zoo have busied themselves with the delicate problem of platypus family life.
- For the first time ever, a duck-billed platypus was born in captivity.