来自希腊语platypous,宽脚的,来自platys,宽的,词源同plate,pous,脚,词源同foot.后用于鸭嘴兽这种动物,因其脚宽而得名。
Orig. the generic name, but, having already been given to a genus of beetles, it was in 1800 changed for Ornithorhyncus. [OED]
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