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prototherian

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12 lettersPronunciation /ˌpɹoʊtɵˈθɪəɹi.ən/Part of speech nounSorted aehinooprrttStarts with PEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea

Word origin

From translingual Prototheria + -an, from Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-, “proto-, first”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).

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  • In his classification of prototherian mammals Hopson (31) queried the allocation of Haramiyidae to the Multituberculata and suggested that multituberculates were derived from a morganucodontid ancestry.
  • Monotremes (prototherians), which include the duck-billed platypus, and short- and long-beaked echidnas, have a cloaca—a single opening for the fecal, urinary, and reproductive tracts.

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