Sentence examples for To platypus from inspiring English sources
noun
A semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal with a bill resembling that of a duck, that has a mole-like body, a tail resembling that of a beaver, a waterproof pelt, and flat webbed feet — males have poisonous spurs on the inside of the back legs; Ornithorhynchus anatinus
I'm talking to platypus".
Parks and Wildlife officers have set up information boards and viewing platforms but the key to platypus spotting is patience.
Finding specimens was difficult because access to platypus habitats required back-country travel, and moreover, once in platypus country, the stealthy, shy platypus was difficult to sight and even more difficult to capture, alive or dead.
A special commendation goes to Platypus's innovative (and U.S.-made) gravity-fed water filter and life-saving soft water bottles (they're extremely light; plus, you can hook them up to a drinking tube and keep them in your pack for easy access while hiking).
RIG-I sequences from human to platypus were aligned using EMBL ClustalW software and manually arranged.
It is 175 bp long and conserved to platypus.
Milk is a mammalian innovation, common to platypuses and pangolins, humans and hippos, its ingredients varying according to what each species needs.
While not strong enough to be fatal to humans, platypus venom can inflict serious pain in the incautious and has been known to cause fatality in dogs.
Therefore, the middle ear must have evolved at least twice: once in the lineage that gave rise to the platypus, and again in the lineage that gave rise to marsupials and placentals like us.
A novel cDNA that was common to both platypus and short-beaked echidna that had apparent similarity to C6orf58 was identified (Lefèvre et al. 2009; Lefèvre, Menzies, et al. 2010; Lefèvre, Sharp, et al. 2010).
As the host range of Giardia extends from amphibians to mammals, we identified orthologous relationships for all proteins from human to mouse, platypus and fish by InParanoid [ 36].
