Echidna
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Echidna nebulosa (snowflake moray) 
Echidna depicted on a kylix, ca. 510 BCE
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἔχιδνα (Ékhidna, “Echidna”), from ἔχιδνα (ékhidna, “viper”).
Proper noun
Echidna f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Muraenidae – some moray eels.
Hypernyms
- (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
- (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
Echidna (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Echidna on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Echidna on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἔχιδνα (Ékhidna, “Echidna”), from ἔχιδνα (ékhidna, “viper”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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
mythology