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

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

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..

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

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.

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

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

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..

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..

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe..

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Spatangus :: Spatangus (n.) A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.

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

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

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