Definition of sea urchin

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Sea urchin () Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.

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Sphaeridium :: Sphaeridium (n.) A peculiar sense organ found upon the exterior of most kinds of sea urchins, and consisting of an oval or sherical head surmounting a short pedicel. It is generally supposed to be an olfactory organ..
Spatangoidea :: Spatangoidea (n. pl.) An order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart-shaped shell with four or five petal-like ambulacra above. The mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side..
Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin..
Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe..
Coronal :: Coronal (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.
Micraster :: Micraster (n.) A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows..
Sea Urchin :: Sea urchin () Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.
Paleechinoidea :: Paleechinoidea (n. pl.) An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palaeechini.
Repkie :: Repkie (n.) Any edible sea urchin.
Corona :: Corona (n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
Pluteus :: Pluteus (n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods..
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
Spatangus :: Spatangus (n.) A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.
Galerite :: Galerite (n.) A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.
Jewstone :: Jewstone (n.) A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin.
Piper :: Piper (n.) A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts..
Sea Hedgehog :: Sea hedgehog () A sea urchin.
Echinoidea :: Echinoidea (n. pl.) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid..
Regular :: Regular (a.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin..
Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.
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