Usually means: Egg-laying mammals with mammary glands.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word monotremes:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. monotremes: Merriam-Webster
  2. monotremes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. monotremes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Monotremes, monotremes: Wordnik
  5. monotremes: Wiktionary
  6. monotremes: Dictionary.com
  7. Monotremes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Monotremes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Monotremes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. monotremes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Monotremes: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  2. monotremes: Evolution Glossary
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See monotreme as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (monotreme)

noun:  (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.
adjective:  (palynology, of a pollen grain) Having a single trema, or aperture.
▸ Also see monotreme


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