Monotreme vs Marsupial - What's the difference?
monotreme | marsupial |
(zoology) A mammal that lays eggs and has a single urogenital and digestive orifice. Only the echidnas and platypuses are included in this group.
(palynology, of a pollen grain) Having a single trema, or aperture.
* {{quote-book, 1952, G. Erdtman, Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy, page=548, year_published=1986
, passage=Nomotreme fern and moss spores are monotreme .}}
A mammal of which the female has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through early infancy, such as the kangaroo or koala, or else pouchless members of the Marsupialia like the shrew opposum.
Of or pertaining to a marsupial.
* 1892 , The American naturalist? , page 125:
* 1952 , The Motor? , page 520:
* 2002 , Fiction Fix: First Injection , page 58:
(anatomy) Of or relating to a marsupium.
As nouns the difference between monotreme and marsupial
is that monotreme is monotreme while marsupial is a mammal of which the female has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through early infancy, such as the kangaroo or koala, or else pouchless members of the marsupialia like the shrew opposum.As an adjective marsupial is
of or pertaining to a marsupial.monotreme
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* monotrematousAdjective
(-)citation
Synonyms
* * monoaperturateAnagrams
*marsupial
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(wikipedia marsupial)Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* marsupial bone * marsupial frog * marsupial lion * marsupial mouseSee also
*Adjective
(en adjective)- Showing that this animal is marsupial , consists of the following characters.
- It seemed to me, meandering around Earls Court, that motors should be more marsupial .
- But there's this pouch just below my belly button, very marsupial , where the kangaroo lives.
- the marsupial bones