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PROTOTHERIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Prototheria mean?
• PROTOTHERIA (noun)
The noun PROTOTHERIA has 1 sense:
1. echidnas; platypus
Familiarity information: PROTOTHERIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Echidnas; platypus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Prototheria; subclass Prototheria
Hypernyms ("Prototheria" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Prototheria"):
Monotremata; order Monotremata (coextensive with the subclass Prototheria)
Holonyms ("Prototheria" is a member of...):
class Mammalia; Mammalia (warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female)
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