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- English Word Echelon Definition An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.
- English Word Echelon Definition To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.
- English Word Echelon Definition To take position in echelon.
- English Word Echidna Definition A monster, half maid and half serpent.
- English Word Echidna Definition 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.
- English Word Echidnine Definition The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus.
- English Word Echinate Definition Alt. of Echinated
- English Word Echinated Definition Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
- English Word Echini Definition of Echinus
- English Word Echinid Definition Same as Echinoid.
- English Word Echinidan Definition One the Echinoidea.
- English Word Echinital Definition Of, or like, an echinite.
- English Word Echinite Definition A fossil echinoid.
- English Word Echinococcus Definition A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.
- English Word Echinoderm Definition One of the Echinodermata.
- English Word Echinodermal Definition Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- English Word Echinodermata Definition One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata.
- English Word Echinodermatous Definition Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.
- English Word Echinoid Definition Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea.
- English Word Echinoid Definition One of the Echinoidea.