urchin
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈɜrʧɪn/
:
erizo de mar
- I would never eat a sea urchin.
- sea urchin
- red urchin
- California sea urchin
Oh, that's like a sea urchin or something.
- Oh, that's like a sea urchin or something.
- So you've seen them lying on their back with this, with the rocks eating the sea urchins.
- And it's a relation of the sea urchins and the starfishes.
- Yeah, bro, dude, like a little sea urchin, dude, it was so bad.
- It was like Red Sea urchin plus like raw squid plus what the anchovies and raw fish and sea bass like.
Examples
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While snorkeling, I saw a purple urchin nestled between the rocks on the ocean floor.
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The little white chunks are sea urchin.
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But there was one bit where there were loads of sea urchins on the ground.
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This is our sea urchin, with an emulsion of sea weed.
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The Oregon coastal red sea urchin fishery has followed a pattern similar to that of Northern California.
Academic text (1997) -
There are nearshore areas where sea urchins are the dominant benthic organism.
Academic text (1997) -
We watched the sea urchins wave their spiny selves back and forth in a tidal pool.
Fiction book (1998) -
The chef prepared a delicious dish using fresh urchin from the market.
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The marine biologist studied the behavior of urchins in their natural habitat.
Synonyms
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4.2
A small round sea animal with sharp spines that lives on rocks
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5.6
A flat round sea animal with a hard shell that lives on sandy sea floors
An animal that lives in the sea with a spiny shell, like a sea urchin
A sea animal with a heart-shaped body and a spiny shell
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Urchin for the sea animal comes from the same idea: it looks like a little hedgehog, covered in spines. That is why a sea urchin is a round, spiny creature found on the ocean floor.