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Sea urchin   /si ˈərtʃən/   Listen
Sea urchin

noun
1.
Shallow-water echinoderms having soft bodies enclosed in thin spiny globular shells.



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edible sea urchin


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"Sea urchin" Quotes from Famous Books



... same direction is offered by the recent discovery[4] that the processes of development stimulated in the eggs of the sea urchin Arbacia by butyric acid or weak bases, and evidenced by the formation of the fertilization membrane, is reversible. When such eggs are treated with a weak solution of sodium cyanide or chloral hydrate, they return to the resting ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86


Words linked to "Sea urchin" :   heart urchin, echinoderm, edible sea urchin, Echinoidea, sand dollar, class Echinoidea, Echinus esculentus


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