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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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.

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

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

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

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

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

Turban-shell :: Turban-shell (n.) A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

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.

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..

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..

Scrobicula :: Scrobicula (n.) One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.

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

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