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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..

Semita :: Semita (n.) A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.

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

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

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

Paleechinoidea :: Paleechinoidea (n. pl.) An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palaeechini.

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

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

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

Petalosticha :: Petalosticha (n. pl.) An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid..

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

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..

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

Aristotle's Lantern :: Aristotle's lantern () The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

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..

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

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

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

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

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