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

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

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

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

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..

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

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin..

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

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.

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..

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..

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.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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