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Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.

Scrobicula :: Scrobicula (n.) One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.

Auricula :: Auricula (n.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

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..

Elfin :: Elfin (n.) A little elf or urchin.

Regularia :: Regularia (n. pl.) A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins..

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

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

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..

Regular :: Regular (a.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin..

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog..

Semita :: Semita (n.) A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.

Piper :: Piper (n.) A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts..

Turban-shell :: Turban-shell (n.) A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

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..

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..

Sea Hedgehog :: Sea hedgehog () A sea urchin.

Rosette :: Rosette (n.) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand..

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

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

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