Definition of urchin

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

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Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.
Galerite :: Galerite (n.) A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.
Tow-head :: Tow-head (n.) An urchin who has soft, whitish hair..
Repkie :: Repkie (n.) Any edible sea urchin.
Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe..
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..
Urchon :: Urchon (n.) The urchin, or hedgehog..
Fasciole :: Fasciole (n.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea..
Corona :: Corona (n.) The shelly skeleton of a 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..
Turban-shell :: Turban-shell (n.) A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.
Elfin :: Elfin (n.) A little elf or urchin.
Unkempt :: Unkempt (a.) Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair..
Piper :: Piper (n.) A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts..
Sea Urchin :: Sea urchin () Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.
Sea Hedgehog :: Sea hedgehog () A sea urchin.
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..
Churching :: Churching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Churc.
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..
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