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

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..

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

Urchon :: Urchon (n.) The urchin, or hedgehog..

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

Aristotle's Lantern :: Aristotle's lantern () The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

Urchin :: Urchin (a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.

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..

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

Corona :: Corona (n.) The shelly skeleton of a 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..

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..

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.

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..

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

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..

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

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.

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

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