Associations to the word «Tachyglossus»

Wiktionary

TACHYGLOSSUS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Tachyglossidae   — the short-beaked echidna.
TACHYGLOSSUS ACULEATUS, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Tachyglossidae   — the short-beaked echidna, sole species of its genus.

Dictionary definition

TACHYGLOSSUS, noun. Type genus of the family Tachyglossidae.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats