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单词 echinus
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echinusn.

/iːˈkʌɪnəs/
Forms: Also Middle English echynnys, 1500s echynus.
Etymology: < Latin echīnus, Greek ἐχῖνος hedgehog, sea-urchin.
Zoology.
1. The Sea-urchin; a genus of animals (Order Echinoidea, Class Echinodermata), inhabiting a spheroidal shell built up from polygonal plates, and covered with rows of sharp spines. (The sense ‘hedgehog’ given in Bailey and some modern dictionaries seems to be merely Greek and Latin.)
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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
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) ii. ix. 82 Sharpe fisshes þat hyȝten echynnys.
?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. riiiv Echynus is a lytell fysshe of half a fote longe, & hath sharpe prykcles vnder his bely in stede of fete.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 31 In Chalk..there are only found Echini, and the other lighter sorts of Shells.
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 120 Yon round Echinus ray his arrowy mail.
1877 W. H. Dall Tribes Extreme Northwest 51 The echinus..is furnished with ovaries on the inner side of the dome of the test.
2. See quot. 1721-1800. Obsolete or doubtful; cf. echinate adj.
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1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Echinus, [among Botanists] is the prickly Head, Cover of the Seed or Top of any Plant, so called from its likeness to a Hedg-hog.
3. Anatomy. ‘The rough stomach of a ruminant; also, the rough and muscular gizzard of graminivorous and gallinaceous birds’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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1715 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. (ed. 2) i. vi. 360 In all granivorous Birds, the Crop, the Echinus and the Gizzard.
4. Architecture. The ovolo moulding next below the abacus of the capital of a column. [So in Greek and Latin; the reason for this use of the word has been variously conjectured.]
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > capital > parts of
abacus1563
echinus1563
plinth1563
fusarole1664
fuse1715
coussinet1728
rind1728
abaciscus1778
horn1847
1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Dii The Antiques in diuers of their edifices, hath made Echinus, to be in Proiecture like vnto Abacus.
1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 127 Echinus, a Bottle cut with an edg.
1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Archit. (1818) 90 This part is called an echinus, because of its resemblance to the prickly coat of chestnut.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 968 Echinus, the same as the ovolo or quarter round, though..only properly so called when carved with eggs and anchors.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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