Echidna

n.	1.	(Gr. Myth.) A monster, half maid and half serpent.
	2.	(Zool.) A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; - called also porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater.

Noun	1.	echidna - New Guinea echidnas Synonyms: spiny anteater, anteater
	2.	echidna - burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites Synonyms: spiny anteater, anteater

Echidna - Constraint logic programming embedded in an object-oriented language. The syntax is an extension of Edinburgh Prolog. ["Hierarchical Arc Consistency Applied to Numeric Processing in Constraint Logic Programming", G. Sidebottom et al, TR-91-06, CSS-IS, Simon Fraser U, and Comp Intell 8(4) (1992)]. ftp://cs.sfu.edu/pub/ecl/papers. E-mail: .

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

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