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From New Latin Platypus (originally a genus name already in use for a type of beetle), from Ancient Greek πλατύπους (platúpous, “flat-footed”), from πλατύς (platús, “flat”) + πούς (poús, “foot”). Piecewise doublet of flatfoot.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈplætɪpəs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈplætɪˌpʊs/, IPA(key): /ˈplætɪpəs/
- Hyphenation: pla‧ty‧pus
platypus (plural platypuses or platypus or (common, hypercorrect) platypi or (rare) platypodes)
- 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.
- Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbill, duckmole, mallangong, tambreet, water mole
2008 March 2, “Captive platypus twins make history”, in ABC News[1]:
Victoria's Healesville Sanctuary is celebrating the births of two baby platypuses, in a major milestone.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:platypus.
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
- Afrikaans: eendbekdier (af)
- Albanian: sqepori
- Arabic: خُلْد اَلْمَاء (ar) m (ḵuld al-māʔ), مِنْقَارُ البَطّ m (minqāru l-baṭṭ)
- Armenian: բադակտուց (hy) (badaktucʻ)
- Assamese: হাঁহঠুঁটীয়া (hãhthũtia), প্লেটিপাছ (pletipas)
- Asturian: ornitorrincu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: ördəkburun (az)
- Bashkir: өйрәкморон (öyrəkmoron)
- Basque: ornitorrinko
- Belarusian: качкано́с m (kačkanós)
- Breton: platypus
- Bulgarian: птицечовка (bg) f (pticečovka)
- Catalan: ornitorinc (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᎹᏱᏕ (mayide)
- Chinese:
- Czech: ptakopysk (cs) m
- Danish: næbdyr (da) n
- Dutch: vogelbekdier (nl) n
- Erzya: шенженерь (šenžeńeŕ)
- Esperanto: ornitorinko
- Estonian: nokkloom (et)
- Faroese: nevdýr n
- Finnish: vesinokkaeläin (fi)
- French: ornithorynque (fr) m
- Galician: ornitorrinco (gl) m
- Georgian: იხვნისკარტა (ixvnisḳarṭa)
- German: Schnabeltier (de) n
- Greek: πλατύποδας (el) (platýpodas)
- Ancient: πλατύπους (platúpous)
- Hebrew: ברווזן (barvazan)
- Hungarian: kacsacsőrű emlős (hu)
- Icelandic: breiðnefur m
- Ido: ornitorinko (io)
- Indonesian: platipus
- Irish: platapas
- Italian: ornitorinco (it) m, ornitorinchide (it) m
- Japanese: カモノハシ (ja) (kamonohashi) (also written: 鴨嘴 (ja) or かものはし (ja))
- Kashubian: dzëbôl m
- Kazakh: үйректұмсық (üirektūmsyq)
- Korean: 오리너구리 (ko) (orineoguri)
- Kyrgyz: өрдөк тумшук (ördök tumşuk), өрдөкмурун (ördökmurun)
- Latin: ornithorhynchus
- Latvian: pīļknābis
- Lithuanian: ančiasnapis
- Macedonian: клунар m (klunar)
- Malay: platipus
- Manx: platypus, platapus
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: нугасан хошуут (nugasan xošuut)
- Mongolian: ᠨᠤᠭᠤᠰᠤᠨ
ᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤᠲᠤ (nuɣusun qosiɣutu)
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: ornitorinc m
- Ossetian:
- Digor: бабузфий (babuzfij)
- Iron: бабызвындз (babyzvynʒ)
- Persian: نوکاردکی (nôk-ordaki), ارنی ترنگ (ornitorang)
- Polish: dziobak (pl) m
- Portuguese: ornitorrinco (pt) m
- Romanian: ornitorinc (ro) m
- Russian: утконо́с (ru) m (utkonós)
- Samoan: platipusi
- Scots Gaelic: platapus
- Serbo-Croatian: kljunar m, čudnovati kljunaš m
- Slovak: vtákopysk (sk) m
- Slovene: kljunaš (sl) m
- Spanish: ornitorrinco (es) m
- Swahili: kinyamadege
- Swedish: näbbdjur (sv) n
- Tatar: үрдәкборын (tt) (ürdäkborın)
- Thai: ตุ่นปากเป็ด (dtùn-bpàak-bpèt)
- Tibetan: སྲམ་ངང་མཆུ་ཅན (sram ngang mchu can) Literally, “duck-lipped otter”
- Turkish: gagalı memeli (tr), ornitorenk (tr)
- Ukrainian: качкодзьо́б m (kačkodzʹób)
- Uyghur: ئۆردەكتۇمشۇق (ördektumshuq)
- Vietnamese: thú mỏ vịt (vi) (duck-beaked mammal)
- Volapük: honedaf
- Welsh: hwyatbig f
- Yiddish: שנאָבל-חיה f (shnobl-khaye)
- platypus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons