echidna

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see also: Echidna

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Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕkĭdnä, IPA: /əˈkɪdnə/

Noun

echidna (plural echidnas)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• (species of Tachyglossidae) spiny anteater, bunning

Translations

• French: échidné
• German: Ameisenigel, Schnabeligel, Echidna
• Italian: echidna
• Portuguese: equidna
• Russian: ехи́дна
• Spanish: equidna

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Echidna

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪˈkɪd.nə/, /əˈkɪd.nə/

Proper noun

1. (Greek mythology) A female monster who, along with Typhon, mothered the vast majority of the famous monsters and creatures of Greek mythology.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:

     Horrible, hideous, and of hellish race, / Borne of the brooding of Echidna base, / Or other like infernall furies kinde […].

Translations

• Russian: Эхидна

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