Definitions for Echidna

Echidna e·chid·na

Spelling: [ih-kid-nuh]
IPA: /ɪˈkɪd nə/

Echidna is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in Echidna (acdehin).

Definitions for Echidna

noun

  1. Also called spiny anteater. any of several insectivorous monotremes of the genera Tachyglossus, of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, and Zaglossus, of New Guinea, that have claws and a slender snout and are covered with coarse hair and long spines.

Origin of Echidna

New Latin (1798), originally a genus name; Latin: serpent, Echidna a mythical creature which gave birth to the Hydra and other monsters Greek échidna, akin to échis viper

Examples for Echidna

In the pelvis the acetabulum is perforate (in echidna), as in Sauropsida.

Dr. Klaatsch thinks that these smaller and included pouches are the equivalents of the mammary pouches of echidna.

The interclavicle is absent from all mammals except echidna and Ornithorhynchus.

The Ornithorhyncus has fur, the echidna has spines, with hairs between them.

In Ornithorhynchus the zygomatic arch is much stouter than in echidna.

The echidna of Australia is sometimes called porcupine ant-eater.

In echidna the carpus is broad, the scaphoid and lunar are united and there is no centrale.

echidna was a bloodthirsty monster, half maiden, half serpent.

Man-serpent, therefore, in Dante, as echidna is woman-serpent.

The acetabulum is perforated in echidna as in birds, but not in Ornithorhynchus.

Word Value for Echidna
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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