Echidna
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek Ἔχιδνα (Ékhidna, “Echidna”), from ἔχιδνα (ékhidna, “viper”).
Proper noun[edit]
Echidna f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Muraenidae – some moray eels.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (genus): Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Osteichthyes - superclass; Actinopterygii - class; Neopterygii - subclass; Teleostei - infraclass; Elopomorpha - superorder; Anguilliformes - order; Anguilloidei - suborder; Muraenidae - family
Hyponyms[edit]
- (genus): Echidna amblyodon, Echidna catenata, Echidna delicatula, Echidna leucotaenia, Echidna nebulosa, Echidna nocturna, Echidna peli, Echidna polyzona, Echidna rhodochilus, Echidna unicolor, Echidna xanthospilos (species)
References[edit]
Echidna (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Echidna on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Echidna on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek Ἔχιδνα (Ékhidna, “Echidna”), from ἔχιδνα (ékhidna, “viper”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Echidna
- (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 […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11: