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NOUN (2)

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 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)