Crossword-Solution: MONOTREME
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Monotreme | n. | One of the Monotremata. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MONOTREME | anagram | EMONORTEM, METRONOME, MONOMETER |
We have 8 clues for the answer “MONOTREME”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Duckbill or echidna | 1 answer |
| Platypus' classification | 1 answer |
| the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria | 1 answer |
| type of primitive egg-laying toothless mammal of Australia and New Guinea | 1 answer |
| Echidna | 2 answers |
| duckbill | 2 answers |
| platypus | 3 answers |
| Egg-laying mammal | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCEMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MONOTREME (5)
This long-extinct Promammal was probably evolved from Proreptiles during the Triassic period, and must certainly be regarded as the monotreme and oviparous ancestor of ALL the mammals.
The early Placentalia would inherit from the Monotreme-like ancestors the development of the milk glands after ovulation, although no sucking was taking place while the young were inside the uterus.
Originally in the reptilian ancestor, or in the Monotreme, the ovum in the follicle secreted yellow-coloured yolk.
This long-extinct Promammal was probably evolved from Proreptiles during the Triassic period, and must certainly be regarded as the monotreme and oviparous ancestor of _all_ the mammals.
The vertebrate fauna of the Cretaceous period differed in many features from that of the present day; mammals appear to have been only poorly represented by puny forms, related to Triassic and Jurassic types; they were mainly marsupials (_Batodon_, _Cimolestes_) with a few monotreme-like forms; carnivores, rodents and ungulates were still unknown.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Three Across.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1988–2012).