Echidna

See also: echidna and echidnă

Translingual

Echidna nebulosa

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἔχιδνα (Ékhidna, “Echidna”), from ἔχιδνα (ékhidna, “viper”).

Proper noun

Echidna f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Muraenidae – some moray eels.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Osteichthyes - superclass; Actinopterygii - class; Neopterygii - subclass; Teleostei - infraclass; Elopomorpha - superorder; Anguilliformes - order; Anguilloidei - suborder; Muraenidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Echidna amblyodon, Echidna catenata, Echidna delicatula, Echidna leucotaenia, Echidna nebulosa, Echidna nocturna, Echidna peli, Echidna polyzona, Echidna rhodochilus, Echidna unicolor, Echidna xanthospilos (species)

Further reading

• Echidna (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Echidna on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Echidna on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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English

Echidna depicted on a kylix, ca. 510 BCE

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἔχιδνα (Ékhidna, “Echidna”), from ἔχιδνα (ékhidna, “viper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈkɪd.nə/, /əˈkɪd.nə/

Proper noun

Echidna

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

mythology

• Danish: Echidna
• Greenlandic: Echidna

• Inuktitut: ᐃᑭᑦᓇ (ikitna)
• Russian: Эхидна f (Exidna)

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