Definitions for echidnas

echidnas e·chid·na

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

Echidnas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 406 anagrams from letters in echidnas (acdehins).

Definitions for echidnas

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 echidnas

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 echidnas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for echidnas
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

Similar words for echidnas
Word of the day