echidna

Etymology
Coined in scientific literature around 1811. Probably from via. Compare. However, this sense is problematic (unless it is a reference to the ant-eating tongue). The name perhaps belongs to 🇨🇬 from the aforementioned Ancient Greek term's alternate sense of "sea-urchin" (also "sharp points"), which Watkins explains as "snake-eater", from, though it may actually be from. The 1810 Encyclopaedia Britannica deduces thus the animal's alternative name as "porcupine ant-eater".

Alternatively, and perhaps more likely, the name refers to Echidna as the name of a serpent-nymph in Greek mythology, "a beautiful woman in the upper part of her body; but instead of legs and feet, she had from the waist downward, the form of a serpent", in which case the animal was named for its mixed features (early naturalists doubted whether it was a mammal or amphibian). Ultimately, the etymology may be from a synthesis of all the roots above. (From OED.)

Noun

 * 1) Any of the species of small spined monotremes in family, the four extant species of which are found in Australia and southern New Guinea.

Derived terms

 * Attenborough's long-beaked echidna
 * Sir David's long-beaked echidna
 * Sir David's long-beaked echidna
 * Sir David's long-beaked echidna
 * Sir David's long-beaked echidna
 * Sir David's long-beaked echidna
 * Sir David's long-beaked echidna
 * Sir David's long-beaked echidna

Translations

 * Afrikaans: mierystervark
 * Arabic: إِيكِيدْنَا
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: গোৱালিয়ান, একিনা
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: yexidna
 * Belarusian: яхі́дна
 * Breton: ekidne
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: equidna
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 食蟻蝟, 刺食蟻獸
 * Czech: ježura
 * Danish: myrepindsvin
 * Darkinjung: kunyi
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: нерьсеель
 * Esperanto: ekidno
 * Estonian: sipelgasiil
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: იქედნე, ექიდნა
 * German:, , Echidna
 * Gooniyandi: minaji
 * Greek:, αγκαθωτός μυρμηγκοφάγος
 * Guugu Yimidhirr: balin.ga
 * Hebrew: הנמלים
 * Hindi: एकिडना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: nokdiak
 * Irish: eicidneach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, エキドナ
 * Javanese: ekidna
 * Kazakh: түрпі
 * Khmer: អ៊ីឈីដាណា
 * Korean: 가시두더지, 바늘두더지
 * Kriol: bogibain
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: echidna
 * Latvian: ehidna
 * Lithuanian: echidna
 * Macedonian: ехи́дна
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: maurpiggsvin, maurpinnsvin
 * Nynorsk: maurpiggsvin
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, echidneu
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: ekitina
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кљунати јежак, је́жак
 * Roman: kljunati ježak,
 * Slovak: ježura
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: equidna
 * Swahili: mhanganungu, ekidna
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ekidna
 * Tajik: ехидна
 * Thai: อิคิดนา
 * Turkish: ekidna, dikenli karıncayiyen
 * Ukrainian: єхи́дна
 * Uyghur: يېخىدنا
 * Uzbek: yexidna
 * Vietnamese: thú lông nhím
 * Wambaya: nyilangunya
 * Wardaman: gawalyan
 * Welsh: ecidna

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) an adder, viper