Definition of urchin

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

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Urchon :: Urchon (n.) The urchin, or hedgehog..
Galerite :: Galerite (n.) A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.
Pluteus :: Pluteus (n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods..
Jewstone :: Jewstone (n.) A large clavate spine of a fossil 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..
Tow-head :: Tow-head (n.) An urchin who has soft, whitish hair..
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A sea urchin. See 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..
Sea Egg :: Sea egg () A sea urchin.
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.
Spatangus :: Spatangus (n.) A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
Sea Hedgehog :: Sea hedgehog () A sea urchin.
Piper :: Piper (n.) A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts..
Elfin :: Elfin (n.) A little elf or 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..
Regular :: Regular (a.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin..
Fasciole :: Fasciole (n.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea..
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..
Churching :: Churching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Churc.
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