Echidna

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Echidna \E*chid"na\ ([-e]*k[i^]d"n[.a]), n. [L., a viper, adder,
     Gr. 'e`chidna.]
     1. (Gr. Myth.) A monster, half maid and half serpent.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Zo["o]l.) 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}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  echidna
       n 1: New Guinea echidnas [syn: {spiny anteater}, {anteater}]
       2: burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long
          snout and claws for hunting ants and termites [syn: {spiny
          anteater}, {anteater}]
       [also: {echidnae} (pl)]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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: .
       
          (1994-12-08)