echino-
- 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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Also called echin-.
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echino-
before a vowel echin-
- 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-
- Spiny:echinococcosis.
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