[syn: echidna, spiny anteater, anteater]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Echidna \E*chid"na\ ([-e]*k[i^]d"n[.a]), n. [L., a viper, adder,
Gr. 'e`chidna.]
1. (Gr. Myth.) A monster, half maid and half serpent.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of Monotremata found in Australia,
Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered
with spines; -- called also porcupine ant-eater, and
Australian ant-eater.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
echidna
n 1: a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having
a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites;
native to New Guinea [syn: echidna, spiny anteater,
anteater]
2: a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a
long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to
Australia [syn: echidna, spiny anteater, anteater]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Echidna
Constraint logic programming embedded in an
object-oriented language. The syntax is an extension of
Edinburgh Prolog.
["Hierarchical Arc Consistency Applied to Numeric Processing
in Constraint Logic Programming", G. Sidebottom et al,
TR-91-06, CSS-IS, Simon Fraser U, and Comp Intell 8(4)
(1992)].
(ftp://cs.sfu.edu/pub/ecl/papers).
E-mail: .
(1994-12-08)