(AU) A place where platypuses are nurtured.
(AU) A place where platypuses are nurtured.
It was Mr. Harry Burrell, of Sydney, who first designed an intricate model home for the platypus and coined for it the obviously suitable name of "Platypusary".
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(informal) The duck-billed platypus.
(South Africa) A farm.
An informal nickname for two very different creatures: the duck-billed platypus — Australia's famously bizarre mammal that lays eggs, has a beaver tail, and uses electroreception to hunt — and hadrosaurs, the duck-billed dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period. The word perfectly captures the flat, wide snout that both share. In casual conversation, 'duckbill' almost always means the platypus. It's also used loosely to describe anything sporting that distinctive flat, wide-mouthed shape.
(AU) The plant .
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(countable) A place where breastfeeding]] or the raising of children is carried on.