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What is a platypus?

What is a platypus? Here are some definitions.

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  1. A semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal with a bill resembling that of a duck, that has a mole-like body, a tail resembling that of a beaver, a waterproof pelt, and flat webbed feet — males have poisonous spurs on the inside of the back legs; Ornithorhynchus anatinus
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From the looks of you, if the gin had taken on the platypus, the platypus would've lost.
Scientists may have to re-draw the family trees of many animals, after discovering that the kangaroo is not related to the duck-billed platypus.
The bill of a platypus is soft, flexible, and leathery, unlike a bird's beak.
Diving ducks and even swimming tortoises can be mistaken for platypus momentarily, but are usually readily distinguished upon longer observation.
We therefore present here a novel eye lens crystallin, crystallin, found in platypus.
The only living descendants of monotremes are the strange duck-billed platypus of Australia and two species of spiny anteaters, or echidnas.

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