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echidna
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echidna
an Australian terrestrial anteater; a burrower with a long snout and tongue. A monotreme. Called also spiny anteater, Tachyglossus and Zaglossus spp. Includes long-nosed echidna (Zaglossus bruijni), short-nosed echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus).


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Thus, regarding typhoon the OED explains that it can go back to Chinese ta 'big' + feng 'wind', represented in Cantonese as tai + fung, but there may be another source from Arabic, adopted from Greek typhon.
Typhon is also mentioned again in the Commedia, though Dante says little about him.
Saint Pancratius (his name meaning 'Omnipotent') repeats in this way the fate of Osiris whom Typhon had torn into pieces.
 
 
 
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