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Definition of Ornithorhynchidae
1. Noun. Platypus.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Monotremata, Order Monotremata
Member holonyms: Genus Ornithorhynchus, Ornithorhynchus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ornithorhynchidae
Literary usage of Ornithorhynchidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. ... Arrangement of the Families of Mammals. With Analytical Tables by Theodore Gill (1874)
"Tachyglossidae > Ornithorhynchidae, Gray, P. & EM, 393. ... Ornithorhynchidae,
Gray, dae P. & EM, 393. ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Ornithorhynchidae.—There is no need to attempt to define this family, since it
contains but one genus ..."
3. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"THIS sub-class is represented by the single order Monotremata with two families
Ornithorhynchidae and ..."
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