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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..

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

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.

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

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

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 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..

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

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

Sea Egg :: Sea egg () A sea urchin.

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

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..

Lurching :: Lurching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lurc.

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..

Fasciole :: Fasciole (n.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea..

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

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

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

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