echidna

«echidna» in Mova's school dictionary: a small spiny animal from Australia and New Guinea that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an echidna, echidnas)

meaning for a pupil

1) An echidna is a small spiny animal from Australia and New Guinea that eats ants and termites with a long sticky tongue. tree →

2) It is one of the only mammals that lay eggs, together with the platypus. tree →

3) In Greek myths, Echidna was a monster, half woman and half serpent. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons it is a famous example of a monotreme, an egg-laying mammal; in Australia and New Zealand children learn it is a native animal. It is also called a spiny anteater. Phrases: «a short-beaked echidna», «a baby echidna (a puggle)».

examples

• An echidna is covered in sharp spines. tree →
• The echidna curled up into a spiky ball. tree →
• Echidnas lay eggs, but they are still mammals. tree →
• It licks up ants with its long, sticky tongue. tree →
• A baby echidna is called a puggle. tree →
• We saw an echidna crossing the bush track. tree →
• Echidnas live in Australia and New Guinea. tree →
• [48] Echidna was a bloodthirsty monster, half maiden, half serpent. tree →

note

Pronounced «ih-KID-nuh». Countable: an echidna. Trap: it looks like a hedgehog or porcupine but is not related to them. Mammals that lay eggs are very rare: only echidnas and the platypus.

In the corpora

• An echidna has no teeth and catches ants and termites with a long sticky tongue after breaking into their nests with strong claws.
• The platypus and the echidnas are mammals that lay eggs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «echidna» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.