duckbill

[ duhk-bil ]

/ ˈdʌkˌbɪl /

platypus.

Also called duckbill platypus, duck-billed platypus.

Origin of duckbill

First recorded in 1550–60; duck¹ + bill²

Here we have Mr. Duckbill of no little fame; His mouth, you will see, is what gives him his name.

Animal Children |Edith Brown Kirkwood
The bald proposition shook me, for I could not but see the logic of it from Duckbill's standpoint.

Tropic Days |E. J. Banfield
Duckbill and his friends, as we were well aware, knew of our plans for the defeat of his proposed outrage.

Tropic Days |E. J. Banfield
Indeed, all, even to Duckbill, would be flattered and demonstrative of pride in the alliance.

Tropic Days |E. J. Banfield

This was the duckbill, or water-mole, which the Australians called the Patybus.

My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands |George Francis Train