echídna

  • 51echidna — noun Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, viper, from Greek more at ophitic Date: 1832 a spiny coated toothless burrowing nocturnal monotreme mammal (Tachyglossus aculeatus) of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea that has a long extensible tongue… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 52Echidna — noun she viper, a female monster …

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  • 53Echidna — Ẹchidna,   griechischer Mythos: ein Ungeheuer mit Frauenkörper, dessen Unterleib in eine Schlange übergeht; gebiert dem Typhon eine Reihe anderer Ungeheuer, z. B. Kerberos, die Chimäre und die Lernäische Schlange. Aus Echidnas Verbindung mit… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 54ECHIDNA —    a fabulous monster that figures in the Greek mythology, half woman, half serpent, the mother of Cerberus, the Lernean Hydra, the Chimæra, the Sphinx, the Gorgons, the Nemean Lion, the vulture that gnawed the liver of Prometheus, &c …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 55echidna — {{hw}}{{echidna}}{{/hw}}s. f. Mammifero australiano dei Monotremi con muso sottile, unghie robustissime atte a scavare e aculei disseminati fra i peli del mantello …

    Enciclopedia di italiano

  • 56echidna — e|chid|na [ ı kıdnə ] noun count a small Australian animal that eats ANTS and other insects …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 57echidna — pl.f. echidne …

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  • 58echidna — Australian toothless spined monotreme resembling a hedgehog Unusual Animals …

    Phrontistery dictionary

  • 59echidna — n. burrowing spine covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites (Zoology) …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 60echidna — chained …

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