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Crossword-Solution: PLATYPUS 8 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Platypus n. The duck mole. See under Duck.

We have 38 clues for the answer “PLATYPUS”

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ORNITHORHYNCHUS 1 answer
Creature named for its flat feet 1 answer
Duck-billed animal 1 answer
Duck-billed critter 1 answer
Duck-billed, egg-laying mammal 1 answer
Duckbill at the zoo. 1 answer
Egg-laying mammal of Australia 1 answer
Extremely goofy duck-billed creature 1 answer
Mammal that lays eggs. 1 answer
Mammal with a bill 1 answer
Bronx Zoo attraction. 1 answer
Odd-looking Australian mammal 1 answer
Odd-looking animal 1 answer
Odd-looking critter 1 answer
PRIMITIVE aquatic mammal 1 answer
Puts play off, its bill being remarkable 1 answer
Toothless Aussie mammal 1 answer
Web-footed Aussie 1 answer
only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae 1 answer
Australian egg-laying amphibious mammal, with dense fur, webbed feet, and a ducklike bill 1 answer
AUSTRALIAN duckbill 1 answer
AUSTRALIAN egg-laying aquatic and burrowing mammal with ducklike beak and flat tail 1 answer
AUSTRALIAN egg-laying mammal/monotreme 1 answer
AUSTRALIAN mammal, egg-laying 1 answer
AUSTRALIAN mammal, venomous 1 answer
AUSTRALIAN monotreme 1 answer
AUSTRALIAN twenty-cent coin, animal featured on the back of the 1 answer
An unusual mammal with a beak like duck and a tail like beaver 1 answer
Australian beast 1 answer
Aussie creature 2 answers
duckbill 2 answers
Australian egg-layer 2 answers
Monotrene 2 answers
monotreme 2 answers
RIVER mammal 3 answers
Egg-laying mammal 4 answers
AUSTRALIAN mammal 27 answers
AUSTRALIAN animal 27 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
CEMAZE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PLATYPUS (5)

George Lakoff mentions the Dyirbal language of Australia where the category balan includes fire, dangerous things, women, birds, and animals such as platypus, bandicoot, and echidna.
The Civilization of Illiteracy Mihai Nadin 2000
Instead of these, it has Marsupials only: kangaroos and opossums; wombats and the duckbilled Platypus.
The Malay Archipelago, Volume I. (of II.) Alfred Russell Wallace 2001
Among other beetles came swarms of the little cylindrical woodborers (Platypus, Tesserocerus, &c.), and commenced making holes in the bark.
The Malay Archipelago Alfred Russell Wallace 2001
The brain of the lowest Mammals, such as the duck-billed Platypus and the Opossums and Kangaroos, exhibits a still more definite advance in the same direction.
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas H. Huxley 2001
Also there are certain minor objects--tin ships, Easter eggs, and the like--of which I shall make incidental mention, that like the kiwi and the duck-billed platypus refuse to be classified.
Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" H. G. Wells 2003

Quotes with PLATYPUS (3)

My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of heat lightning With the waist of an hourglass With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitude With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earth With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes With the tongue of an unbelievable stone My w…
Andre Breton Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthology
Since we’re made in God’s image, this must be from Him, so even God must need an “atta boy,” an out-loud, in-your-head “Thank you, great job on that sunset and that platypus was a brilliant fun idea.” Maybe that’s why we’re supposed to pray the way we do, because without it God would be lonely.
Laurell K. Hamilton Affliction
Dear Uncle Bernard - Your niece Frances - a four-eyed, French-plaited platypus awaiting the evaporation of h baby fat - thanks you very much for the romantic advice. But I've never been one to spend time thinking about why men and women take to each other, or why they don't. I think it can turn a lady neurotic, a term I despise but also am loath to have turned in my direction.
Carlene Bauer Frances and Bernard
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 18 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).