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

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

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lurching :: Lurching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lurc.

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

Petalosticha :: Petalosticha (n. pl.) An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid..

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

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

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.

Spatangoidea :: Spatangoidea (n. pl.) An order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart-shaped shell with four or five petal-like ambulacra above. The mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side..

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..

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

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