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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..

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

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

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.

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

Coronal :: Coronal (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.

Spatangus :: Spatangus (n.) A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.

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

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

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

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

Piper :: Piper (n.) A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts..

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

Repkie :: Repkie (n.) Any edible 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.

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..

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

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

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