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Dictionary: dictd_www.dict.org_gcide
Definition: platypus

Duck \Duck\, n. [OE. duke, doke. See Duck, v. t. ]
1. (Zool.) Any bird of the subfamily {Anatin[ae]}, family
{Anatid[ae]}.
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Note: The genera and species are numerous. They are divided
into river ducks and sea ducks. Among the former
are the common domestic duck (Anas boschas); the wood
duck (Aix sponsa); the beautiful mandarin duck of
China (Dendronessa galeriliculata); the Muscovy duck,
originally of South America (Cairina moschata). Among
the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc.
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2. A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the
person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
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Here be, without duck or nod,
Other trippings to be trod. --Milton.
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Bombay duck (Zo["o]l.), a fish. See Bummalo.

Buffel duck, Spirit duck. See Buffel duck.

Duck ant (Zo["o]l.), a species of white ant in Jamaica
which builds large nests in trees.

Duck barnacle. (Zo["o]l.) See Goose barnacle.

Duck hawk. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon.
(b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard.

Duck mole (Zo["o]l.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia,
having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck
(Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass
Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird
or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus,
mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole.

To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely,
so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of
the water, raising a succession of jets; hence:

To play at ducks and drakes, with property, to throw it
away heedlessly or squander it foolishly and unprofitably.

Lame duck. See under Lame.
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Dictionary: WordNet
Definition: platypus

platypus
n : small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and
Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet;
only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae [syn: duckbill,
duckbilled platypus, {duck-billed platypus}, {Ornithorhynchus
anatinus}]