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Echinus   Listen
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Echinus  n.  (pl. echini)  
1.
(Zoöl.) A hedgehog.
2.
(Zoöl.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.
3.
(Arch.)
(a)
The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.
(b)
The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style.
(c)
A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with the Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.





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"Echinus" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Gertrude conscientiously went through some of their studies; then proceeded to unpack their treasury of fossils, and endeavour to sort out Leonard's share, as to which doubts arose. Daisy proposed to carry the specimens at once to Bankside, where she wanted to see Leonard's prime echinus; and Aubrey readily agreed, neither of the young heads having learnt the undesirableness of a morning visit in a house preparing for a ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge
... formation. Other Echinoderms are rare, a few Sea-Urchins only being known: these have a complex structure, with many more plates on their surface than are seen in the modern genera of the same group. One genus, the Palaechinus (Figure 480), is the analogue of the modern Echinus, but has four, five, or six rows of plates in the interambulacral region or area, whereas the modern genera have only two. The other, Archaeocidaris, represents, in like manner, the Cidaris of the ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell
... the submerged rocks and blocks of coral are two or three species of ECHINUS (sea-urchins), with long and slender spines radiating from their spheroid bodies. One (DIADERNA SETOSA) is distinguished by what appears to be precious jewels of sparkling blue—believed to be visual organs—which lose their brilliancy immediately ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield


Words linked to "Echinus" :   quarter round, ovolo, Medicago echinus, Echinus esculentus


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