monotreme
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Ventral view of a female echidna, a monotreme, showing single orifice.
See also: monotrème
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Noun
monotreme (plural monotremes)
- (zoology) A mammal of the order Monotremata that lays eggs and has a single orifice for urogenital and digestive functions (cloaca); an echidna or a platypus.
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egg-laying mammal
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Adjective
monotreme (not comparable)
- (palynology, of a pollen grain) Having a single trema, or aperture.
- Synonyms: 1-treme, monoaperturate
- 1952, G. Erdtman, Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy, published 1986, →ISBN, page 548:
- Nomotreme fern and moss spores are monotreme.
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