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For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.
Junior Seau

Meaning of "sea urchin" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SEA URCHIN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEA URCHIN

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Sea urchin is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SEA URCHIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sea urchin

Sea urchin

Sea urchins or urchins, sometimes called sea hedgehogs, are small, spiny, globular animals which, with their close kin, such as sand dollars, constitute the class Echinoidea of the echinoderm phylum. About 950 species of echinoids inhabit all oceans from the intertidal to 5000 m deep. The shell, or "test", of sea urchins is round and spiny, typically from 3 to 10 cm across. Common colors include black and dull shades of green, olive, brown, purple, blue, and red. Sea urchins move slowly, and feed on mostly algae. Sea otters, sea stars, wolf eels, triggerfish, and other predators hunt and feed off sea urchins. Their roe is a delicacy in many cuisines. The name "urchin" is an old name for the round spiny hedgehogs which sea urchins resemble.

Definition of sea urchin in the English dictionary

The definition of sea urchin in the dictionary is any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, such as Echinus esculentus, typically having a globular body enclosed in a rigid spiny test and occurring in shallow marine waters.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEA URCHIN

sea shanty
sea slater
sea slug
sea snail
sea snake
sea spider
sea squill
sea squirt
sea steps
sea swallow
sea tangle
sea transport
sea trout
sea turtle
sea vegetable
sea view
sea wall
sea wasp
sea water
sea wrack

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEA URCHIN

baldachin
capuchin
catechin
chin
chin-chin
Cochin
double chin
heart urchin
matachin
nutcracker chin
parochin
pyrocatechin
receding chin
scuchin
street urchin
take it on the chin
Travancore-Cochin
urchin

Synonyms and antonyms of sea urchin in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «sea urchin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEA URCHIN

Find out the translation of sea urchin to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sea urchin from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sea urchin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

海胆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

erizo de mar
570 millions of speakers

English

sea urchin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समुद्री साही
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قنفذ البحر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

морского ежа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ouriço-do- mar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমুদ্র সৈকত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

oursin
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Landak laut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Seeigel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ウニ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

성게
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Segara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

con hải đởm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடல் முள்ளெலி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समुद्रातील साखळी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Deniz kestanesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

riccio di mare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

jeżowca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

морського їжака
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

arici de mare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αχινός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

zeeëgel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sjöborre
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kråkebolle
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sea urchin

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The term «sea urchin» is regularly used and occupies the 69.278 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sea urchin

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QUOTES WITH «SEA URCHIN»

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Junior Seau
For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEA URCHIN»

Discover the use of sea urchin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sea urchin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Developmental Biology of the sea Urchin Embryo
Developmental Biology of the sea Urchin Embryo
Giovanni Giudice, 2012
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Bluewater Gold Rush/: The Odyssey of a California Sea Urchin ...
Covers Tom Kendrick's life as a sea urchin diver (and surfer) and the California sea urchin fishery from 1978 through 1996. He and others dived in areas such as the Channel Islands and the shark-infested Farallon Islands.
Tom Kendrick, 2006
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Edible Sea Urchins: Biology and Ecology
Scientists around the world are actively investigating their potential for aquaculture. This book is designed to provide a broad understanding of the biology and ecology of sea urchins.
John M. Lawrence, 2006
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The Sea Urchin: Proceedings of the Workshop at the ...
This chapter describes historical background related to sea urchins as well as the contemporary situation of fisheries in Japan and, finally, sea urchin consumption. 1. HISTORY OF THE SEA URCHIN IN JAPAN It is well known that a large ...
Paul de Bijl, 2002
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Encyclopedia of the Aquatic World: Sea urchin and sand dollar
Title not sold separately. See ISBN 0761474188 for the complete set.
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2004
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Salinity Sensitivity of Embryos of the Antarctic Sea Urchin, ...
This is the first study to investigate the responses of S. neumayeri embryos to a decrease in salinity.
Dominique Alexandria Cowart, 2008
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Sea Urchin Development: Cellular and Molecular Aspects
Good,No Highlights,No Markup,all pages are intact, Slight Shelfwear,may have the corners slightly dented, may have slight color changes/slightly damaged spine.
Louis W. Stearns, 1974
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Investigation of the Dynamic Sea Urchin Egg Proteome and ...
The goal of the work presented here was to utilize the sea urchin model system to investigate egg activation with respect to Ca2+ and pH signaling through the development and application of genomic, proteomic and mechanistic approaches.
Michelle Marie Roux, 2007
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Asian Foods: Science and Technology
Oyster sauce is primarily produced by China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand. Korea only produces concentrated oyster juice for further oyster sauce production. 3.2 FERMENTED PRODUCTS 3.2.1 Sea Urchin The fermented sea urchin ...
Catharina Y.W. Ang, Keshun Liu, Yao-Wen Huang, 1999
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Septins and Molecular Machinery of Cytokinesis in the Sea Urchin
This is a comprehensive webpage that integrates information on the signaling, ring component, abscission proteins, and on cytokinesis in general with more emphasis on the sea urchin.
Aliz Axmann, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEA URCHIN»

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Maine's proposed sea urchin card system up for Thursday vote
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- A key Maine panel is scheduled to vote this week on a plan to track the state's sea urchin fishery with swipe cards. The urchins are ... «WCSH-TV, Jul 15»
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Proposed sea urchin rules to track fishery
AUGUSTA — Maine fishery regulators are taking the final comments about a proposal to track the sea urchin fishery with swipe cards. Friday is the final day for ... «Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, May 15»
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State wants fishermen to adopt new sea urchin card system
AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Maine wants fishermen to tell state regulators what they think about a plan to create a new swipe card accountability ... «WCSH-TV, May 15»
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Final Sea Urchin Rules Hearing Tuesday In Ellsworth
ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) — Maine fishing regulators are getting ready to hold the second of two public hearings about a plan to change the rules about fishing ... «WABI, May 15»
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Do sunscreen and boat bottoms hurt sea urchins?
Nanomaterials in sunscreens and on boat-bottom paints make sea urchin embryos more vulnerable to toxins, report researchers. They say the materials could ... «Futurity: Research News, May 15»
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Sea urchin swipe card system, rules for season proposed
Maine fishery regulators are proposing a sea urchin fishing season that would establish rules for a swipe card system to record transactions when urchins are ... «Boston Globe, May 15»
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Sea star die off unleashes urchin hordes
In Central California, red and purple sea urchins are proliferating wildly now that one of their primary threats is gone. The coast of Los Angeles doesn't have that ... «LA Daily News, Apr 15»
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Sea star disease raises concerns about urchins
With their starfish predators wiped out by disease, purple sea urchins are coming out from their cracks and crevices along the Central California Coast, as seen ... «Santa Cruz Sentinel, Apr 15»
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Sea urchin is turning up on New York City menus, in everything from …
Sea urchin is moving up from the back roe. A delicacy long-prized in other areas of the globe, it's now popping up on more and more menus in New York City, ... «New York Daily News, Jan 15»
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Sea urchins could turn south-east Australian reefs into wastelands …
The marine ecosystem study, led by Tasmanian scientist Scott Ling, found sea urchin numbers were increasing in warming coastal waters off south-eastern ... «ABC Online, Nov 14»

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