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do you mean platypus? The common name, Platypus, is Latin derived from the Greek words πλατÏς ("platys", flat, broad) and πους ("pous", foot), meaning "flat foot".[
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1799, from Mod.L., from Gk. platypous, lit. "flat-footed," from platys "broad, flat" (see place (n.)) + pous "foot." "Orig. the generic name, but, having already been given to a genus of beetles, it was in 1800 changed for Ornithorhyncus." [OED] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=platypus
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