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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..

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..

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.

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

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.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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