sea urchins
- plural of sea urchin.
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In 1899 he caused the unfertilized eggs of sea-urchins to 'develop into swimming larvae and remain alive.
From Time Magazine Archive
This will give capsules with figured belts, vertical lines at regular intervals, or transverse stripes composed of projecting dots such as may be seen in many sea-urchins.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
Spatangoi′da, Spatangoi′dēa, the Spatangid�, an order of petalostichous sea-urchins, generally excluding the clypeastroids or flat sea-urchins.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The sea-urchins made him to place on the sand, And frighten the monsters that dwell on the land.
From Gobolinks or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old by Paine, Albert Bigelow
The Pyramidellidæ, which are high-spired, elongated, and slender shells, with the exception of the genus Stylina, which lives attached to the spines of sea-urchins or buried in living star-fishes and corals.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter
