Definition of Ornithorhynchidae

1. Noun. Platypus.

Exact synonyms: Family Ornithorhynchidae
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Monotremata, Order Monotremata
Member holonyms: Genus Ornithorhynchus, Ornithorhynchus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ornithorhynchidae

Ornithodoros pappilipes
Ornithodoros parkeri
Ornithodoros rudis
Ornithodoros savigni
Ornithodoros talaje
Ornithodoros tholozani
Ornithodoros turicata
Ornithodoros venezuelensis
Ornithodoros verrucosus
Ornithogalum
Ornithogalum pyrenaicum
Ornithogalum thyrsoides
Ornithogalum umbellatum
Ornithomimida
Ornithonyssus
Ornithorhynchidae
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Oro
Orobanchaceae
Oromos
Orono
Orontes
Orontium
Orontium aquaticum
Orosirian
Oroya fever
Orozco
Orphean
Orpheus

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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