Definition of urchin

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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..

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Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
Coronal :: Coronal (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.
Elfin :: Elfin (n.) A little elf or 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..
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..
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.
Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe..
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..
Churching :: Churching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Churc.
Sea Egg :: Sea egg () A sea urchin.
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..
Urchin :: Urchin (a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.
Urchon :: Urchon (n.) The urchin, or hedgehog..
Repkie :: Repkie (n.) Any edible sea urchin.
Corona :: Corona (n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
Tow-head :: Tow-head (n.) An urchin who has soft, whitish hair..
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..
Unkempt :: Unkempt (a.) Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair..
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..
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