Echidna
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): 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 edit
- (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 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, “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 edit
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