No, the label monotreme refers to the order of mammals which lay eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

The word monotreme combines the Greek words, μονο and τρεμα, for one and hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monotremata] Reference

Blah blah blah, it's a monotreme, blah blah blah it belongs to the Zaglossus genus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference

June 4, 2008 at 11:54 am iz nawt mammul. iz….sumfin elze. big wurd. monotreme? sumfin liek dat.    From Wordnik.com.  [oh mai! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Even the rats -- of the abundant monotreme creatures which were Lithia's equivalent -- found it impossible to infest a pottery house.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case Of Conscience]

Descriptions of the skull and non-vestigial dentition of a Miocene platypus (Obdurodon dicksoni n. sp.) from Riversleigh, Australia, and the problem of monotreme origins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia] Reference

If moving from monotreme dreams to 'treme genes leaves you hungry for more information on Ornithorhynchus anatinus, reread this old Jurisdynamics post, Monotremata. posted by Jim Chen at 1:46 AM.    From Wordnik.com.  [The platypus genome] Reference

Imagine you are a future paleontologist who is spectacularly lucky and find the fossils representing the exact two species that were the progenitors of the monotreme and marsupials+placentals lineages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mammalian Macroevolution Muddle - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

A 15 million-year-old complete skull and nearly complete dentition of the monotreme Obdurodon dicksoni has already provided a great deal of new information about this highly distinctive group of mammals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia] Reference

But these fossils, even though they are from the true ancestral species of monotremes and marsupials+placentals, probably would not have any major distinguishing derived characters that would allow you to place either species specifically in the monotreme or marsupial/placental branch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mammalian Macroevolution Muddle - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

It is a mammal, but as a monotreme it also lays eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

Police first thought the monotreme had been killed by the explosion, the ABC said.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Her laboratory is responsible for much of what is known about marsupial and monotreme genetics and genomics.    From Wordnik.com.  [University of Utah - UNews RSS Feed] Reference

The duck-billed platypus is a truly unique animal; a monotreme with almost no close relatives alive on earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Because the monotreme platypus wasn't brought to the attention of Europeans until 1798, when one was shipped to England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference

"I expect these results to make a major impact in the field of monotreme research and mammal evolution," Dr Grützner says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

Egg Laying Semi-Aquatic monotreme: The fact that the Platypus is the only semi-aquatic monotreme that lays eggs truly makes it unique.    From Wordnik.com.  [BorkWeb] Reference

That's because these are derived traits that evolved in the platypus lineage after the monotreme and placental mammal lineages diverged from a common ancestor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

To gain insights into evolutionary forces shaping the CEA gene family we have analysed this gene family in 27 mammalian species including monotreme and marsupial lineages.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

The supposition that mammals had evolved from reptiles, Hubrecht averred, had for too long hinged on the modern day existence of egg-laying monotreme mammals like the duck-billed platypus.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

The cattle genome contains a minimum of 22,000 genes, with a core set of 14,345 orthologs shared among seven mammalian species of which 1217 are absent or undetected in noneutherian (marsupial or monotreme) genomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

This is the Vauxhall Flextreme (a name generated by cunningly melding the words 'flexible' and 'monotreme'), a show concept that, says Vauxhall, illustrates how the Ampera/Volt hybrid technology can be fitted into a larger vehicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC TopGear: Cars and Autos News]

Jeniferever - Green Meadow Island from monotreme records on Vimeo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference

The linked MS-NBC article didn’t say whether it was placental, monotreme or marsupial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversies in Evolution: 'Jurassic beaver' unearthed in China - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Australia’s other monotreme, the duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatimus) is found in freshwater throughout Tasmania, including King Island but not the Furneaux Group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tasmanian temperate forests] Reference

Or so says the wizened monotreme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europa Cold (well, not quite, but still...)] Reference

My platypus is a useful monotreme.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Quell the rage that deeply seethes, the extremes of these devotions."] Reference

6 hr 31 min ago, -0 / +10Dugg for "Platapi are monotremes (the only other monotreme is the echidna, who we already know are after our Chaos Emeralds)".    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

(wallaby) or monotreme (platypus) mammals.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Everyone’s favorite monotreme has been sequenced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists map the genome of the platypus « Isegoria] Reference

It is neither monotreme, multituberculate, marsupial, or placental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversies in Evolution: 'Jurassic beaver' unearthed in China - The Panda's Thumb] Reference