Definitions for echinus

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echinus e·chi·nus

Spelling: [ih-kahy-nuh s]

IPA: /ɪˈkaɪ nəs/

Echinus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in echinus (cehinsu).

Definitions for echinus

noun

1. any sea urchin of the genus Echinus.
2. Architecture. an ovolo molding, especially one having an outline with several radii or one carved with an egg-and-dart pattern. the prominent circular molding supporting the abacus of a Doric or Tuscan capital. Also called cymatium. the circular molding, usually carved with an egg-and-dart pattern, forming part of an Ionic capital between the volutes and under the balteus.

Origin of echinus

1325-75; Middle English Latin Greek echînos hedgehog, sea urchin

Examples for echinus

A name in our northern isles for the sea-urchin, echinus marinus.

This is sometimes done, which proves that the energy required to perform the feat is not more than a healthy echinus can expend.

At one end of the series we have the echinus with its rays all united in a box-like rigid shell.

Then coasting along the shore 100 stadia, we find above it, echinus.

Is, therefore, oxygen the cause of the formation of the intestine of echinus?

It cannot be our task to follow all the points of organogenesis of echinus in detail.

The projection of the echinus beyond the fillet of the abacus should be equal to the size of the eye.

Figs. 50, 60, and 61 are righting movements of echinus on a perpendicular surface.

When a perpendicular surface is reached, the echinus may either ascend it or not, as in the case of the Star-fish.

echinus sphra is the most common on the Norfolk coast; E. miliaris, a small species, is also very abundant about Cromer.