sea urchin
noun
: any of numerous echinoderms (class Echinoidea) that are usually enclosed in thin brittle globular tests covered with movable spines
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My personality is Paleozoic: sea urchin, horn lantern with the panes of horn
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Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
Ago Bay is the heartland of Japan's legendary ama divers – generations of fearless women who, for thousands of years, have held their breath and plunged to the seabed in search of scallops, abalone, sea urchins and sea snails.
—Scott Campbell, theweek, 23 Dec. 2024
The crew also found cactus-like sea urchins and marine sponges that were as tall as humans.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
Other algae grazers like sea urchins, meanwhile, have vanished, too.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 8 Oct. 2024
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Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
Ago Bay is the heartland of Japan's legendary ama divers – generations of fearless women who, for thousands of years, have held their breath and plunged to the seabed in search of scallops, abalone, sea urchins and sea snails.
—Scott Campbell, theweek, 23 Dec. 2024
The crew also found cactus-like sea urchins and marine sponges that were as tall as humans.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
Other algae grazers like sea urchins, meanwhile, have vanished, too.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Sea urchin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20urchin. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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