echiniten.
/ˈɛkɪnʌɪt/ A fossil echinoderm; a fossil sea urchin.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > member of
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echinoderm1813
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > member of (sea-urchin)
echinusc1374
urchin fish1566
ruffe1591
sea-hedgehog1598
urchin1601
sea urchin1605
sea-bear1611
sea-chestnut1613
sea-thistle1661
sea-apple1666
sea-egg1666
button-fish1668
sea-button1668
urchin-worm1668
whore's egg1674
sea-shilling1713
echinite1750
echinid1835
pancake1843
echinoid1864
oursin1914
kina1960
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 184 The Bodies which are called, by Naturalists, Echinitæ.]
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados ii. 55 I have likewise a middle-sized petrified Echinite.
1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) 24 The echinites.
Derivatives
echiˈnital adj. pertaining to or resembling echinites.
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