Usually means: Mammal, lays eggs, duck bill.
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  1. platypus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. platypus: Merriam-Webster
  3. Platypus, platypus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. platypus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. platypus: Collins English Dictionary
  6. platypus: Vocabulary.com
  7. Platypus, platypus: Wordnik
  8. platypus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. platypus: Wiktionary
  10. platypus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. platypus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. platypus: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. platypus: Dictionary.com
  14. platypus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. PLATYPUS, Platypus (band), Platypus (disambiguation), Platypus (game), Platypus (video game), Platypus (weevil), Platypus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Platypus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. platypus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. platypus: Rhymezone
  19. Platypus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. platypus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. platypus: FreeDictionary.org
  22. platypus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. platypus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. platypus: Encyclopedia

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  3. platypus: Medical dictionary

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  1. The Platypus, platypus: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See platypi as well.)

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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.

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