monotreme

See also: monotrème

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ -treme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnətɹiːm/
• Hyphenation: mo‧no‧treme

Noun

monotreme (plural monotremes)

Ventral view of a female echidna, a monotreme, showing single orifice.

1. (zoology) A mammal that lays eggs and has a single orifice for urogenital and digestive functions (cloaca). Only the echidnas and platypuses are included in this group.

Derived terms

• monotrematous
• monotremous

Related terms

• Monotremata
• monotrematic
• trema

 

Translations

egg-laying mammal

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: monotrema m Chinese: Mandarin: 單孔目動物／单孔目动物 (dānkǒngmù dòngwù) Dutch: cloacadier (nl) n, snaveldier n, monotreem m Esperanto: monotremo Finnish: nokkaeläin (fi) French: monotrème (fr) m Galician: monotremo m German: Kloakentier (de) n Hebrew: יונקי הביב m pl (yonkéy habív), חיות הביב f pl (khayót habív) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: kloákás Icelandic: nefdýr n Italian: monotremo (it) Japanese: カモノハシ目 (ja) (kamonohashi-moku), 単孔類 (ja) (たんこうるい, tankōrui) Kazakh: біртесікті (bırtesıktı) Korean: 단공류 (dan'gongnyu) (as a group) Latin: please add this translation if you can Maltese: please add this translation if you can Polish: stekowiec (pl) m Portuguese: monotremo m, monotremado (pt) m, monotrémato m Romanian: monotrem (ro) n, monotremă (ro) f Russian: однопрохо́дное (ru) n (odnoproxódnoje) (млекопита́ющее), яйцекладу́щее (ru) n (jajcekladúščeje) (млекопита́ющее), клоа́чное (ru) n (kloáčnoje) (млекопита́ющее) Spanish: monotrema m Swahili: mamalia atagaye mayai Swedish: kloakdjur (sv) n Tagalog: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: động vật đơn huyệt Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• cloaca

Adjective

monotreme (not comparable)

1. (palynology, of a pollen grain) Having a single trema, or aperture.

   Synonyms: 1-treme, monoaperturate

   • 1952, G. Erdtman, Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy‎, published 1986, →ISBN, page 548:

     Nomotreme fern and moss spores are monotreme.

Coordinate terms

• anatreme
• catatreme
• nomotreme
• pantotreme
• trema
• zonotreme

 

References

monotreme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• metronome, monometer, nomotreme