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echino-

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  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.
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Also called echin-.
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British Dictionary definitions for echino-

echino-

before a vowel echin-

combining form
  1. indicating spiny or pricklyechinoderm
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Word Origin

from New Latin, via Latin from Greek ekhinos sea urchin, hedgehog
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echino- in Medicine

echino-

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  1. Spiny:echinococcosis.
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