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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.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Micraster :: Micraster (n.) A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows..

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.

Repkie :: Repkie (n.) Any edible sea urchin.

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

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

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

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