Assertion: platypus | /r/HasProperty | understood for many years
Facets:
value: very poorly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Misunderstood Mammals: The platypus and other monotremes were very poorly understood for many years, and to this day some of the 19th century myths that grew up around them endure, for example, that the monotremes are "inferior" or quasi-reptilian, and that they are the distant ancestor of the "superior" placental mammals.