Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a single or common opening for the genital, urinary, and digestive organs, as a mammal; pertaining to the Monotremata, or having their characters; monotreme; prototherian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Monotremata.
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- adjective zoology Of or pertaining to the
Monotremata .
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New Holland has merely marsupial and some monotrematous, but no placental, mammalia; even its tertiary strata give no placental mammalia, but marsupialia, in analogy with all living genera, herbivorous, and carnivorous.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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