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Sea Egg :: Sea egg () A sea urchin.

Pluteus :: Pluteus (n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods..

Galerite :: Galerite (n.) A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.

Fasciole :: Fasciole (n.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea..

Jewstone :: Jewstone (n.) A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin.

Coronal :: Coronal (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.

Repkie :: Repkie (n.) Any edible sea urchin.

Church :: Church (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women..

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..

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.

Clypeastroid :: Clypeastroid (a.) Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side..

Churching :: Churching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Churc.

Lithophagous :: Lithophagous (a.) Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus..

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.

Tangle :: Tangle (v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea..

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.

Tow-head :: Tow-head (n.) An urchin who has soft, whitish hair..

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..

Unkempt :: Unkempt (a.) Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair..

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

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