Echidna

See also: echidna and echidnă

Translingual

Echidna nebulosa (snowflake moray)

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): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Actinopterygii – superclass; Teleostei – class; Elopomorpha - superorder; Anguilliformes - order; Anguilloidei - suborder; Muraenidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Echidna nebulosa (snowflake moray) - type species; Echidna amblyodon, Echidna catenata (chain moray), Echidna delicatula, Echidna leucotaenia, Echidna nocturna, Echidna peli, Echidna polyzona, Echidna rhodochilus, Echidna unicolor (unicolor moray), Echidna xanthospilos - other species

References

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

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, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

Translations

mythology

• Danish: Echidna
• French: Échidna (fr) f
• Greenlandic: Echidna
• Inuktitut: ᐃᑭᑦᓇ (ikitna)
• Russian: Эхидна f (Exidna)

Anagrams

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