Noun:

Echidna,

echidnas's Usage Examples:

The echidnas are exceedingly restless in confinement, and constantly endeavour by burrowing to effect their escape.

The anatomical differences by which the platypus, and its only allies the echidnas, are separated from all other mammals, so as to form a distinct sub-class, are described in the article Monotremata, where also will be found the main distinctive characters of the two existing representatives of the group.

Of the three-clawed echidnas (Proechidna) confined to New Guinea there are two species, Bruijn's echidna (P.

Synonyms:

egg-laying mammal, monotreme, Zaglossus, genus Zaglossus, spiny anteater, anteater,

Antonyms:

None