Definition of urchin

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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..

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Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe..
Galerite :: Galerite (n.) A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.
Unkempt :: Unkempt (a.) Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair..
Scrobicula :: Scrobicula (n.) One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles 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..
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 sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
Repkie :: Repkie (n.) Any edible sea urchin.
Pluteus :: Pluteus (n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods..
Churching :: Churching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Churc.
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..
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..
Sea Urchin :: Sea urchin () Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.
Spatangus :: Spatangus (n.) A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.
Fasciole :: Fasciole (n.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea..
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..
Petalosticha :: Petalosticha (n. pl.) An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid..
Sea Hedgehog :: Sea hedgehog () A sea urchin.
Coronal :: Coronal (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.
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