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    PROTOTHERIAN

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guineaplay

    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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