• n. [脊椎] 鴨嘴獸

來自希臘語platypous,寬腳的，來自platys,寬的，詞源同plate,pous,腳，詞源同foot.后用于鴨嘴獸這種動物，因其腳寬而得名。

platypus

platypus: [18] The platypus’s name means literally ‘flat-footed’. It was given to it at the end of the 18th century, and is first recorded in George Shaw’s Naturalists’ Miscellany 1799. It was adapted from Greek platúpous, a compound formed from platús ‘flat’ (source of English place, plaice, and plane the tree) and poús ‘foot’ (a relative of English foot).
=> foot, place, plane, plate

platypus (n.)

Australian duck-mole, 1799, from Modern Latin, from Greek platypous, literally "flat-footed," from platys "broad, flat" (see plaice (n.)) + pous "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)).

Orig. the generic name, but, having already been given to a genus of beetles, it was in 1800 changed for Ornithorhyncus. [OED]

1. One of the mascots was the platypus.

吉祥物一是鴨嘴獸.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. At home both in water and on land, the platypus is amphibious.

鴨嘴獸的家可以在水中,也可以在陸上.它是兩棲動物.

來自英語晨讀30分（高一）

3. Not many people could describe a platypus because few have seen one.

很少有人能描述鴨嘴獸,因為幾乎沒有人見過它.

來自英語晨讀30分（高一）

4. For this reason, scientists know less about the platypus than they would like to know.

因為這個原因, 科學家對它知之甚少.

來自英語晨讀30分（高一）

5. Researchers just mapped the genome of a female platypus from Australia.

最近,研究人員們為一直來自澳大利亞的雌性鴨嘴獸繪制了基因圖.

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