Aristotle's lantern

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noun Zoology.

a complex arrangement of muscles and calcareous teeth and plates forming an eversible organ in most echinoids, functioning in mastication.

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Origin of Aristotle's lantern

So called from a reference by Aristotle to a sea urchin resembling in shape certain lanterns

How to use Aristotle's lantern in a sentence

While I was working on Green Lantern, I met [DC Comics Chief Creative] Geoff Johns.
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Arrow has been embraced by fans and audiences in a way that the Green Lantern movie certainly never was.
The TV Superhero Guru Behind ‘The Flash’|Jason Lynch|October 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Our first episode will really hang a lantern on everything being reset, and they just go right back to who they were.
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DC Comics had a golden opportunity to bring a black superhero to the screen in the Green Lantern film.
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Last summer, DC Comics revealed that Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, was gay.
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We sat in silence, watching through the window the old man's lantern as he swung away toward home.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
"I thought we hit a man," said the engineer, swinging his lantern far out into the darkness.
A Lost Hero|Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. Ward
The engineer took his lantern and silently went back and swung the spot of fire in the black, cold air.
A Lost Hero|Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. Ward
And just as I came up I saw Mrs. Maloney, marvellously attired, fumbling with a lantern.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
I slept soundly enough when I was not following my father about the house with a candle, or about the hills with a lantern.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton