monotreme

See also: monotrème

English

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

Etymology

From mono- +‎ -treme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɒnətɹiːm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: mo‧no‧treme

Noun

monotreme (plural monotremes)

1. (zoology) Any of the order Monotremata of mammals that lay eggs and have single orifices for urogenital and digestive functions (cloaca); an echidna, platypus or one of their extinct relatives.

Derived terms

• monotrematous
• monotremous

Related terms

• monotrematic
• trema

Translations

egg-laying mammal

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: մոնոտրեմ (monotrem)
• Belarusian: монатрэма (mónatrema)
• 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: अण्डजस्तनी (aṇḍajastanī)
• 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: monotrema
• 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 (es) m
• Swahili: mamalia atagaye mayai
• Swedish: kloakdjur (sv) n
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: однопрохідний (odnoprohidnıĭ)
• 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^[1], 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