Continuous, strictly monotonic and odd functions

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Suppose $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ is continuous, strictly monotonic and odd.

Is $f$ necessarily a polynomial function?

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What about $f(x)=\sinh(x)$? Or $f(x)=x+\sin(x)$?

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$f(x)=e^{x}-1$ for $x \geq 0$ and $f(x)=1-e^{-x}$ for $x \leq 0$ has these properties.