The word platypus is from the Greek platypous, meaning "flat-footed": from platys "broad, flat" + pous "foot."
The scientific name (sometimes also called the Latin name) of the platypus is ornithorhynchus anatinus.
The platypus is classified in the family Ornithorhynchidae because this latin term means "bird-like snout", which refers to the platypus's bill.
The scientific name (sometimes also called the Latin name) of the platypus is ornithorhynchus anatinus.
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Ornithorhynchus anatinusThe original name was Platypus anatinus, from Greek and Latin words meaning "flat-footed, duck-like". After realising that the name "platypus" had already be given to a group of beetles, the scientist involved assigned the platypus the scientific name of Ornithorhynchus anatinus, the first word of which means "bird-like snout".
"Platypus" or "platypuses" are both accepted plural forms.The plural of platypus is not platypi. It is unfortunate that some dictionaries include platypi as a plural. Listing "octopi" as the plural of octopus is also incorrect, for the same reason. Both words are from Greek, not Latin."Platypi" is a colloquialism, and incorrect both grammatically and etymologically. The term uses pseudo-Latin rules.
That would be the plural using Greek rules: both platypus and octopus are from Greek, and do not (as is commonly assumed) use the Latin plurals platypi and octopi.The correct English plural is either platypuses or the same word platypus (used as a group noun, like sheep or trout).
a platypus's bill is a bill that is on a platypus
a platypus's bill is a bill that is on a platypus
The pluralization of octopus as "octopi" is in fact, in its Latinate form, incorrect, as this would require it to be a second declension Latin word. Since its classification in Latin form is third declension, according to classical Latin grammar rules, the plural of octopus should be octopodes. In any case, the more commonly used plural of octopus is "octopuses" - which classicists regard as an incorrect oversimplification. Besides this, the plural of platypus cannot be universally agreed upon either - "platypuses", "platypus", and "platypi", as well as the grammatically correct plural "platypodes", are used with varying levels of popularity.
The platypus's name was determined by British scientist George Shaw.He was the first European to examine the platypus, and he named it Platypus anatinus, from Greek and Latin words meaning "flat-footed, duck-like". This was published in "The Naturalist's Miscellany" in 1799.After realising that the name "platypus" had already been given to a group of beetles, Shaw assigned it the scientific name of Ornithorhynchus anatinus, the first word of which means "bird-like snout". However, the original name of platypus was adopted as the common name, rather than the word "duckbill", which had also begun to be used.The word platypus is from the Greek platypous, meaning "flat-footed": from platys "broad, flat" + pous "foot."It is incorrect to call this animal a duckbilled platypus.
No. The platypus is not a hoarder.
A Platypus is not a primate.