How To Use Echidna In A Sentence
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Maybe you would see koalas, wombats, echidnas, brush tail and ring tail possums and emus if you're lucky.
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True, the bottle of T.C.P. antiseptic (slightly to the right) is a reminder of splinters, stubbed toes, barnacle cuts from the jetty, and minor sailing accidents but fortunately nobody seems ever to have been seriously injured; never to my knowledge bitten by a snake or poisonous spider, and the only local indigenous wildlife I recall are possums, kookaburras, and a lone echidna which put in an appearance in about 1976.
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There are only three living monotremes, the duck-billed platypus and two species of echidna, or ‘spiny anteaters’, such as the one shown at right.
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The platypus and the echidna - a nocturnal, burrowing mammal with a spiny coat, long claws, and no teeth - are the only known living members of a type of animal known as monotremes.
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By the blacks the echidna, which is known as "Coombee-yan," is placed on the very top of the list of those dainties which the crafty old men reserve for themselves under awe-inspiring penalties.
Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Next in size to the echidna is the white-tipped rat (UROMYS
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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But it is the immediate predecessor of modern mammals, such as the platypus and the echidna.
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So sometimes there may be the opportunity to stroke the bilbies and echidnas (and watch the latter run off down the corridor at the back), and on others it may be hand-feeding baby wallabies and Thunderbird the emu.
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Perth Zoo is another fine place to see native wildlife, such as the platypus and echidna that were the inspiration for the Olympic mascots.
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Echidnas have long, protrusible, mucous-covered tongues that aid in the capture of prey.
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The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
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Maybe you would see koalas, wombats, echidnas, brush tail and ring tail possums and emus if you're lucky.
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The echidna is a nocturnal animal which means it only comes out at night and it is rare to see one during the day.
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The Greek Echidna, the mother of monsters, identifies herself to the story's hero, Percy and he says, "Isn't that a kind of anteater?
A Brief Sea Change
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But it is the immediate predecessor of modern mammals, such as the platypus and the echidna.
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Blast, I fell victim to the platypus ... now my echidna is all chittering in the corner about bread on the table, crumbs in the pantry and freelance websites.
"You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe..."
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Like these higher mammals, the platypus and the echidna also have a jaw composed of a single bone, three inner-ear bones, relatively high metabolic rates, and hair.
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The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
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But the serpent was also called _ahi_ in Sanskrit, in Greek _echis_ or _echidna_, in Latin _anguis_.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The echidna depends more on its hearing than its eyesight, though it does see reasonably well.
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They are protected in a temporary pouch in echidnas but not platypuses.
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Deciding, on a whim, to visit the Zoo, she runs into her old friend Professor "Badger" Badgecumbe, and they go and look at the echidna, a hideous creature who is the incarnation of accidie.
Mrs. Miniver
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Twenty two native mammals are found in the park including dingo Canis familiaris dingo, red kangaroo Macropus rufus, common wallaroo M. robustus, marsupial mole Notoryctes typhlops, spinifex hopping mouse Notomys alexis, several bat species including Australian false vampire Marcoderma gigas (V), bilby Macrotis lagotis (E), occasional short nosed echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus and several small marsupials and native rodents.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia
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The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
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The Australian fossil record of monotremes also includes some quite good Miocene and Pleistocene fossils of giant echidnas.
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The long tubular nose of the echidna is the vital spot.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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The fact that hibernators are as numerous and as varied as they are - the club includes some ground squirrels and rodents, at least one bird, various snakes and the echidna which is the platypus's closest living relative, among other species - suggests that the biological machinery that's needed for hibernation is both ancient and widespread in the animal kingdom.
Many species use hibernation to survive the rigors of winter
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It is curious, too, to note that echidnas also possess spurs but their venom gland is non-functional.
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The platypus and the echidna - a nocturnal, burrowing mammal with a spiny coat, long claws, and no teeth - are the only known living members of a type of animal known as monotremes.
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Like the echidna, an adult platypus has no teeth.
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In the echidna, anteaters, and pangolins, there are qualitative differences in tongue construction.
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I also stroked a wallaby/kangaroo/wallaroo - there were loads of them just wandering around freely amongst the visitors which I thought was great - and saw echidnas, emus, cassowaries, a dingo (looked like any other dog!), wombats, Tasmanian devils, quokkas (never heard of them), bilbies (likewise!), flying foxes (great big brown bats), and tiny penguins.
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The mascots at the Summer 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, were a platypus named Syd, an echidna called Millie, and a kookaburra called Olly.
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Perth Zoo is another fine place to see native wildlife, such as the platypus and echidna that were the inspiration for the Olympic mascots.
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The mascots at the Summer 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, were a platypus named Syd, an echidna called Millie, and a kookaburra called Olly.
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In echidnas, the egg is carried in a pouch on the female's belly until the young hatches, at which point the barely-developed young must find a mammary gland and latch onto it for nourishment.
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These exotic egg-laying animals are represented by just three species: the duck-billed platypus and two echidnas.
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Next in size to the echidna is the white-tipped rat (UROMYS HIRSUTIS?), water-loving, nocturnal in its habits, fierce and destructive.
Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Maybe you would see koalas, wombats, echidnas, brush tail and ring tail possums and emus if you're lucky.
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Not for the first time it struck Buncan that Clothahump went through famuli the way an echidna went through termites.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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WilletteEchidna: Unfortunately bits can still leave you with a base-10 representation, such as "megabit" or "kilobit.
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To the kangaroos and emus of the outback, I was able to add sightings of wallabies, a wombat, and an echidna.
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Farther on an echidna broke off its quest after ants, panicked at her approach.
THE THORN BIRDS
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Unlike platypuses, echidnas lack webbing and instead have large, shovel-like claws are present on all feet.
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The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
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The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
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Paralysis ticks normally live on native animals such as bandicoots and echidnas.
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With this dog, her own son, Echidna incestuously begat the Sphinx.
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East Point has nesting turtles, quolls, echidnas, goannas and other animals, and rich marine life.
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He showed me simulated flythroughs of a giant sequoia forest and a forest of smaller trees created using data from the ECHIDNA on his computer.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Mapping the Forest and the Trees: A Visit With Remote Sensing Expert Alan Strahler
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The only living monotremes are the platypuses and the echidnas.