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PROTOTHERIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prototherian mean?
• PROTOTHERIAN (noun)
The noun PROTOTHERIAN has 1 sense:
1. primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea
Familiarity information: PROTOTHERIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("prototherian" is a kind of...):
mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prototherian"):
egg-laying mammal; monotreme (the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria)
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