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).
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
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.