echino-

1. a combining form meaning “prickly; spiny,” used in the formation of compound words:

   echinulate.

2. a combining form representing echinoderm in compound words:

   echinoid.

echino-

combining_form

1. indicating spiny or prickly

   echinoderm

Word History and Origins

Origin of echino-¹

from New Latin, via Latin from Greek ekhinos sea urchin, hedgehog

Example Sentences

With what pleasure I counted the yellow blossoms of the echino-cactus!

From Project Gutenberg

Ars varia vulpis, ast una echino maxima—The fox has many tricks; the hedgehog only one, and that greatest of all.

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In crossing the table-top, we stumbled upon huge echino-cacti, that grew over the ground like ant-hills or gigantic bee-hives.

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