Well, Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures. I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I...
Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?
(n.) The duck mole. See under Duck.
If I believed a giant Platypus was coming to liberate humanity and save us all, it would still make more sense than the climate denial people do......