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Spiny mammal
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echidna
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Wikipedia
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In Greek mythology , Echidna (; , "She-Viper") was a monster, half-woman and half-snake, who lived alone in a cave. She was the mate of the fearsome monster Typhon , and known primarily for being the mother of monsters, including many of the most famous ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. New Guinea echidnas [syn: spiny anteater , anteater ] burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites [syn: spiny anteater , anteater ] [also: echidnae (pl)]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Australian egg-laying hedgehog-like mammal, 1810, said to have been named by Cuvier, usually explained as from Greek ekhidna "snake, viper" (also used metaphorically of a treacherous wife or friend), from ekhis "snake," from PIE *angwhi- "snake, eel" (cognates: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of the species of small spined monotremes in family Tachyglossidae, the four extant species of which are found in Australia and southern New Guinea.
Usage examples of echidna.
As Sisipyla followed, watching her own feet in their sandals going one before the other, she thought about the terrible lion, and its even more terrible mother Echidna, daughter of Ge and Tartarus, half nymph, half speckled snake, who had lived in a cave in Arcadia, from which she rushed hissing out to seize and devour passers-by.
And in time she was not a snake but an echidna, a snake that hates humans because she wishes she were human.
The whole echidna slid over with a rolling crackle and a cloud of broken rock.
The echidna struck the water loop by loop, sending a long column of spray to dance above the crumbled cliff.
For the body of the Echidna, on the other hand, it is the so-called lattice-work pattern which represents the scale covering,--a pattern employed in vases for the most varied purposes, and found on the earliest Cypriote pottery.
He cannot bear to see the defenseless echidna suffer such an agonizing fate but feels altogether powerless to do anything about it.
I can hardly believe it, but I would never have believed they would set an echidna on fire either.
Hydra The beast of Hera, daughter of the serpent-goddess Echidna, guarded the entrance to the underworld at Lerna.
Then there were an Irish pheasant, an echidna, a turtle, an eagle, eight frogs playing different musical instruments and numerous crocodiles of varying shapes and sizes.
Tiny, bright-eyed birds squabbled among low shrubs, and a spiny echidna dug among the fibrous roots of an ancient mountain ash.
Farther on an echidna broke off its quest after ants, panicked at her approach.
Simna to suspect it was some kind of arthropod siphoner, like an anteater or echidna.
Inning after inning he had Qwilleran stumped with ebionitism and echidna, cytodiagnosis and czestochowa, onychophore and opalinid.
We've just finished sequencing and comparing the allogenomes of echidnas and, of course, platypuses.
He quickly became a leading expert on all kinds of animals living and extinct—from platypuses, echidnas, and other newly discovered marsupials to the hapless dodo and the extinct giant birds called moas that had roamed New Zealand until eaten out of existence by the Maoris.