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Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.

Regular :: Regular (a.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin..

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..

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.

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

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

Auricula :: Auricula (n.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

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

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

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

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

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

Urchin :: Urchin (a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.

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

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

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

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

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

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