echidnas
Meaning of echidnas
plural noun
a spiny insectivorous egg-laying mammal with a long snout and claws, native to Australia and New Guinea.
mid 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek ekhidna ‘viper’, also the name of a mythical creature which gave birth to the Hydra; compare with ekhinos ‘sea urchin, hedgehog’.
Information about echidnas
- It is a name.
- The singular form of echidnas is: echidna.
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Hyphenation of echidnas
echid-nas
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- echidnas is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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