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from The Century Dictionary.
- The lowest one of three subclasses of the class Mammalia, represented by the monotremes or oviparous mammals, and conterminous with the order Monotremata: so called from the ornithic character of the reproductive or urogenital organs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Same as
monotremata .
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