platypus

See also: Platypus

English

A platypus

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈplætɪpəs/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈplætɪˌpʊs/, IPA^(key): /ˈplætɪpəs/

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• Hyphenation: pla‧ty‧pus

Noun

platypus (plural platypuses or platypus or (common, hypercorrect) platypi or (rare) platypodes)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• platypusary

Translations

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:

  Mandarin: 鴨嘴獸／鸭嘴兽 (zh) (yāzuǐshòu)

• 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:

  Bokmål: nebbdyr n

  Nynorsk: nebbdyr n

• 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)

See also

• echidna
• monotreme

References

• platypus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ornithorhynchus anatinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ornithorhynchus anatinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons