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

Anagrams of echidnas

inchased

Words that rhyme with echidnas

Ednas

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