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

Unkempt :: Unkempt (a.) Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair..

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Corona :: Corona (n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.

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

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

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

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