Definitions for sea-urchin

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sea-urchin sea urchin

Sea-Urchin is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 649 anagrams from letters in sea-urchin (-acehinrsu).

Definitions for sea-urchin

noun

1. any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
2. a tall evergreen shrub or small tree, Hakea laurina, of Australia, having narrow leaves and dense, globe-shaped clusters of crimson flowers with long yellow stamens.

Origin of sea-urchin

First recorded in 1585-95

Examples for sea-urchin

I had everything from raw hamachi with sea urchin to lamb tongue.

I felt I had done well; my sea urchin was actually what I had imagined.

He lowered his voice as if a sea urchin might hear and tattle.

Not before the skeleton or mesenchyme is formed in the sea urchin egg is the influence of the nucleus noticeable.

Why was it not possible to prove this fact for the eggs of the sea urchin?

That a tree could possess this no one would suggest; that a sea urchin could possess it no one would be likely to contend.

The writer tried to decide this question in the egg of the sea urchin.

Another egg placed under identical conditions will develop into a sea urchin, and another into an oyster.

Another one of her favorite foods was the sea urchin—that chestnut burr of the sea.

Five-days-old larv from a sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) and a starfish (Asterias) .