echino-
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a combining form meaning “prickly; spiny,” used in the formation of compound words: echinulate.
a combining form representing echinoderm in compound words: echinoid.
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How to use echino- in a sentence
With what pleasure I counted the yellow blossoms of the echino-cactus!
Ars varia vulpis, ast una echino maxima—The fox has many tricks; the hedgehog only one, and that greatest of all.
In crossing the table-top, we stumbled upon huge echino-cacti, that grew over the ground like ant-hills or gigantic bee-hives.
The War Trail|Mayne Reid
British Dictionary definitions for echino-
echino-
before a vowel echin-
combining form
indicating spiny or pricklyechinoderm
Word Origin for echino-
from New Latin, via Latin from Greek ekhinos sea urchin, hedgehog
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