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

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe..

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

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

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

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

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

Micraster :: Micraster (n.) A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows..

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.

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

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