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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Sphaeridium :: Sphaeridium (n.) A peculiar sense organ found upon the exterior of most kinds of sea urchins, and consisting of an oval or sherical head surmounting a short pedicel. It is generally supposed to be an olfactory organ..

Sea Urchin :: Sea urchin () Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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