Definition of Monotremes

1. Noun. (plural of monotreme) ¹

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Definition of Monotremes

1. monotreme [n] - See also: monotreme

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monotremes

monotonicities
monotonicity
monotonies
monotoning
monotonist
monotonists
monotonous
monotonously
monotonousness
monotony
monotransitive
monotransitivity
monotrematous
monotremes (current term)
monotrichate
monotrichous
monotriglyph
monotriglyphs
monotropa
monotropic
monotype
monotypes
monotypic
monotypy
monoubiquinated
monoubiquitin
monoubiquitinate
monoubiquitinated

Literary usage of Monotremes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"On Some Points in the Development of monotremes By WH CALDWELL, MA 2. On the Morphology oj the Mammalian Coracoid.1 fly Professor HOWES, FL8. ..."

2. The Geography of Mammals by William Lutley Sclater, Philip Lutley Sclater (1899)
"DISTRIBUTION OF monotremes The ... The monotremes in these days are a failing group, consisting only of about five species ..."

3. Australasia by Henry Rees (1907)
"monotremes The Monotremata are the most primitive of existing mammals. They include two chief genera, Ornitho- rhynchus, the' famous duck - billed Platypus, ..."

4. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1901)
"... OF monotremes. BY PROFESSOR JT WILSON, MB, Ch.M. For the research three specimens were utilised. ..."

5. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"Definition and Characters of the Realm—Australian Region—monotremes— Marsupials—Rodents—Carnivores—Ungulates—Bats—List of Australian and Papuan ..."

6. Natural History of Animals: Containing Brief Descriptions of the Animals by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"DUCKBILLS, OR monotremes. These are animals which vary much from all other mammals, having their organic structure in some respects much like that of Birds. ..."

7. Contributions to the physiology and pathology of the breast and its by Charles Creighton (1878)
"... contents of the cells, and it is the periodical expansion of the mamma in the monotremes that issues in the formation and discharge of a secretion. ..."

8. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Scientific Study by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1910)
"The bladder also opens into the cloaca in the monotremes, and, indeed, ... It was proved by Haacke and Caldwell in 1884 that the monotremes lay large eggs, ..."

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