Definition of urchin

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

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Aristotle's Lantern :: Aristotle's lantern () The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.
Urchon :: Urchon (n.) The urchin, or hedgehog..
Semita :: Semita (n.) A fasciole of a spatangoid 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..
Petalosticha :: Petalosticha (n. pl.) An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid..
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..
Churching :: Churching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Churc.
Sea Urchin :: Sea urchin () Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.
Regularia :: Regularia (n. pl.) A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins..
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..
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..
Repkie :: Repkie (n.) Any edible sea urchin.
Regular :: Regular (a.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin..
Piper :: Piper (n.) A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts..
Spatangus :: Spatangus (n.) A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.
Urchin :: Urchin (a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.
Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
Corona :: Corona (n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
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.
Tow-head :: Tow-head (n.) An urchin who has soft, whitish hair..
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