Usually means: Mammals, lay eggs, duck-billed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (platypus)

noun:  A semi-aquatic, egg-laying monotreme 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.
▸ Also see platypus


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