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Definition of Egg-laying mammal

1. Noun. The most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Egg-laying Mammal

Literary usage of Egg-laying mammal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travel Letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa by Edgar Watson Howe (1913)
"The duck-bill, interesting because it is an egg-laying mammal, ... An ant-eater having a bear-like snout, and also an egg-laying mammal, ..."

2. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"ECHIDNA OR SPINY ANT-EATER This primitive egg-laying mammal ranges from Australia through the Papuan region. There is a related genus. ..."

3. The Nature of Woman by John Lionel Tayler (1913)
"In the egg-laying mammal the female parent feeds the young after they are hatched from its own body by its milk, ..."

4. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1893)
"In ornithorhynchus, the Australian duck mole, we have an egg-laying mammal, the egg undergoing segmentation as a fowl's, and as a further feature, ..."

5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1892)
"In ornithorhynchus, the Australian duck mole, we have an egg-laying mammal, the egg undergoing segmentation as a fowl's, and as a further feature, ..."

6. Evolution, the Master-key: A Discussion of the Principle of Evolution as by Caleb Williams Saleeby (1906)
"The duck-mole, or ornithorhynchus, the Australian egg-laying mammal, still extant, teaches us that this step was taken ere yet the ethical worth of ..."

7. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"One of the Monotremata (Prototheria); an egg-laying mammal having a cloaca. Morphology (morfol' oji). The branch of biology which deals with the structure ..."

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