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Echidna   Listen
noun
Echidna  n.  
1.
(Gr. Myth.) A monster, half maid and half serpent.
2.
(Zoöl.) A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater.





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... common viper ( Vipera cevus), ranging from Wales to Saghalien island, and from Caithness to the north of Spain. The puff-adder (Bitis s. Echidna arietans) of nearly the whole of Africa, and the death-adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) from Australia to the Moluccas, are both very poisonous (see VIPER). The word was in Old Eng. noedre, later ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Echidna" :   genus Tachyglossus, Tachyglossus, Zaglossus, anteater, monotreme, spiny anteater, genus Zaglossus, egg-laying mammal


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