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SEA URCHIN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Shallow-water echinoderms having soft bodies enclosed in thin spiny globular shellsplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea urchin" is a kind of...):

echinoderm (marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea urchin"):

Echinus esculentus; edible sea urchin (a sea urchin that can be eaten)

sand dollar (flattened disklike sea urchins that live on sandy bottoms)

heart urchin (sea urchin having a heart-shaped body in a rigid spiny shell)

Holonyms ("sea urchin" is a member of...):

class Echinoidea; Echinoidea (sea urchins and sand dollars)

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