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anyone know what the collective/plural of duck billed platapus is
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The OED says that 'platypus' is modern Latin, though adapted from Greek 'platupous'. As it's Latin , all pedants may use platypi for the plural [we take it as a masculine noun of the second declension] and everyone else can laugh ! Platypuses seems better.
The dictionary gives 'platypussary' for "an enclosure or building in which platypuses are kept". The dictionary is there using 'platypuses' as the plural.
The dictionary gives 'platypussary' for "an enclosure or building in which platypuses are kept". The dictionary is there using 'platypuses' as the plural.
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