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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria;
[syn: monotreme, egg-laying mammal]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Monotreme \Mon"o*treme\, n. [Cf. F. monotr[`e]me.] (Zool.) One of the Monotremata. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

monotreme n 1: the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria [syn: monotreme, egg-laying mammal]