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Example sentences for: platypus

How can you use “platypus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

On the other there were new names, borrowings from Aboriginal languages, like boobook, dingo, koala, kurrajong, wallaby, wallaroo, waratah, and wombat, all from Dharuk (the Sydney language); descriptive names like blackbutt, bottlebrush, duckbill, flooded gum, and gumtree; or popular adoptions of scientific names like banksia, callistemon, casuarina, boronia, eucalyptus, and platypus.
More specific examples are: common earthworm ( Lumbricus terrestris ), European polecat ( Mustela putorius ), and duckbill platypus ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus ). These names must be in the "Common Name" database for the sequence entry to be identified with this method.
Occasionally, the colloquial name, by itself, adds to the information given in the binomial: the platypus (Ornithorhyncus anatinas ) is a (ducklike, bird-snouted) flatfoot.
My child, the duck-billed platypus A sad example sets for us.
For example, the platypus has challenged animal classifiers.