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

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

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.

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..

Turban-shell :: Turban-shell (n.) A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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