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

Regular :: Regular (a.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

Tangle :: Tangle (v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea..

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

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