English
Etymology
From mono- + -treme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɒnətɹiːm/
- Hyphenation: mo‧no‧treme
Noun
monotreme (plural monotremes)
- (zoology) Any of the order Monotremata of mammals that lay eggs and have single orifices for urogenital and digestive functions (cloaca); an echidna, platypus or one of their extinct relatives.
Derived terms
Translations
egg-laying mammal
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- Catalan: monotrema m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 單孔目動物 / 单孔目动物 (dānkǒngmù dòngwù)
- Dutch: cloacadier (nl) n, snaveldier n, monotreem m
- Esperanto: monotremo
- Finnish: nokkaeläin (fi)
- French: monotrème (fr) m
- Galician: monotremo m
- German: Kloakentier (de) n
- Hebrew: יונקי הביב m pl (yonkéy habív), חיות הביב f pl (khayót habív)
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- Hungarian: kloákás
- Icelandic: nefdýr n
- Italian: monotremo (it)
- Japanese: カモノハシ目 (ja) (kamonohashi-moku), 単孔類 (ja) (たんこうるい, tankōrui)
- Kazakh: біртесікті (bırtesıktı)
- Korean: 단공류 (dan'gongnyu) (as a group)
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- Polish: stekowiec (pl) m
- Portuguese: monotremo m, monotremado (pt) m, monotrémato m
- Romanian: monotrem (ro) n, monotremă (ro) f
- Russian: однопрохо́дное (ru) n (odnoproxódnoje) (млекопита́ющее), яйцекладу́щее (ru) n (jajcekladúščeje) (млекопита́ющее), клоа́чное (ru) n (kloáčnoje) (млекопита́ющее)
- Spanish: monotrema m
- Swahili: mamalia atagaye mayai
- Swedish: kloakdjur (sv) n
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- Vietnamese: động vật đơn huyệt
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See also
Adjective
monotreme (not comparable)
- (palynology, of a pollen grain) Having a single trema, or aperture.
- Synonyms: 1-treme, monoaperturate
1952, G. Erdtman, Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy[1], published 1986, →ISBN, page 548:Nomotreme fern and moss spores are monotreme.
Coordinate terms
References
monotreme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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