sea urchin

English

A sea urchin

Etymology

From sea +‎ urchin (“hedgehog”), reflecting a similarity in appearance to a hedgehog.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: sēʹ ûr'tsĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈsi ˌɝtʃɪ̈n/

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• Hyphenation: sea ur‧chin, sea urchin

Noun

sea urchin (plural sea urchins)

1. Any of many marine echinoderms, of the class Echinoidea, commonly found in shallow water, having a complex chewing structure named Aristotle's lantern.
   • 1986, Patrick S. Leahy, Chapter 1: Laboratory Culture of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Adults, Embryos, and Larvae, Thomas E. Schroeder (editor), Methods in Cell Biology, Volume 27: Echinoderm Gametes and Embryos, page 2,

     Of the many species of sea urchins utilized in biological research today the most widely used in North America is probably the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.

   • 2001, V. L. Kasyanov, Reproductive Strategy of Marine Bivalves and Echinoderms, page 90:

     The pericentriolar radial complex characteristic of the spermatozoa of other echinoderms is lacking in the spermatozoa of all sea urchins.

   • 2004, Belinda J. Sly, The Development and Evolution of the Echinoderm Nervous System, page 9:

     Approximately 20% of sea urchins are direct-developers, meaning that they bypass the pluteal larval stage and develop directly into an adult sea urchin.

Hypernyms

• (sea urchin): echinoid

Translations

any of many marine echinoderms of the class Echinoidea

• Afrikaans: seekastaiing
• Albanian: iriq deti m
• Arabic: قُنْفُذ البَحْر m (qunfuḏ al-baḥr)
• Arabic: قُنْفُذ البَحْر m (qunfuḏ al-baḥr)
• Armenian: ծովոզնի (hy) (covozni)

  Old Armenian: ոզնի ծովու (ozni covu)

• Asturian: oricio m, alezna (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: dənizkirpisi
• Basque: itsas triku
• Belarusian: марскі вожык m (marski vóžyk)
• Breton: (collective) teureug (br) m, teureugenn (br) m, kistin-mor m
• Bulgarian: морски таралежи m (morski taraleži)
• Catalan: garota (ca) f, eriçó de mar (ca) m
• Cebuano: tuyom, swaki
• Cherokee: ᎠᎺᏉ ᎡᎯ ᏧᏟᏲᏍᏗ (amequo ehi tsutliyosdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 海膽／海胆 (hoi² daam²)

  Mandarin: 海膽／海胆 (zh) (hǎidǎn)

• Cornish: sort mor m
• Corsican: zinu (co) m
• Crimean Tatar: deñiz kirpisi
• Czech: mořský ježek m, ježovka f
• Danish: søpindsvin n
• Dutch: zee-egel (nl) m
• Erzya: ведьсеель (veďśejeľ)
• Esperanto: eĥino, ekino, mara erinaco, markaŝtano
• Estonian: merisiilik
• Faroese: igulker n
• Finnish: merisiili (fi)
• French: oursin (fr) m, hérisson de mer (fr) m
• Galician: ourizo (gl) m, ourizo do mar m, ourizo mariño (gl) m
• Georgian: ზღვის ზღარბი (zɣvis zɣarbi)
• German: Seeigel (de) m
• Greek: αχινός (el) m (achinós)

  Ancient: βρύσσος m (brússos), ἐχῖνος m (ekhînos)

• Greenlandic: eqqusaq (kl)
• Hebrew: קִיפּוֹד יָם (kipod yam)
• Hindi: जलसाही (jalsāhī)
• Hungarian: tengeri sün (hu)
• Icelandic: ígulker (is) n
• Ido: ekino (io)
• Indonesian: bulu babi (id), landak laut
• Irish: cuán mara m
• Italian: riccio di mare m
• Japanese: 海胆 (ja) (うに, uni), 雲丹 (ja) (うに, uni)
• Kabuverdianu: orisu, orisu
• Kabyle: adeɣmus
• Kavalan: qubu, tlumsik
• Kazakh: теңіз кірпісі (teñız kırpısı)
• Korean: 성게 (seongge)
• Kyrgyz: деңиз кирписи (deŋiz kirpisi)
• Latin: echīnus (la) m
• Latvian: jūraseži m
• Ligurian: zìn m
• Limburgish: zieëieëgel m, watersieëgel m
• Lithuanian: jūros ežys m
• Luxembourgish: Séiigel m
• Macedonian: морски еж m (morski ež)
• Malay: landak laut, jani (ms) (Singapore)
• Malayalam: കടൽച്ചേന (kaṭalccēna)
• Maltese: rizza f
• Manx: crockan traie m, kione chiyt m
• Maori: kina, pūrau, pūrou
• Mapudungun: yupe
• Mari:

  Western Mari: тангыж шӱлӹ (tangyž šülÿ)

• Middle English: yrchoun
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh adijiłii
• Nootka: t̕uc̕up
• Norn: julter n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjøpiggsvin n, sjøpinnsvin n, kråkebolle (no) m

  Nynorsk: sjøpiggsvin n, kråkebolle m

• Occitan: orsin (oc) m
• Old Norse: ígull m
• Persian: خارپشت دریایی (xârpošt daryâyi), توتیای دریایی (tutiyâye daryâyi)
• Polish: jeżowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: ouriço-do-mar (pt) m
• Quechua: yaku askanku
• Romanian: arici de mare m
• Russian: морско́й ёж m (morskój jož), ёж-ры́ба f (jož-rýba)
• Scottish Gaelic: cragan-tràghad m, cragan-feannaige m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: морски јеж m, јѐжинац m

  Roman: morski jež m, jèžinac (sh) m

• Sicilian: rizzu (scn) m
• Slovak: ježovka f, morský ježko m
• Slovene: morski ježek (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: móŕski jež m

  Upper Sorbian: mórski jěž m

• Spanish: erizo de mar (es) m
• Swedish: sjöborre (sv) c
• Tagalog: salungo
• Tajik: хорпушти баҳрӣ (xorpušt-i bahri)
• Tamil: கடல் முள்ளெலி (kaṭal muḷḷeli)
• Thai: เม่นทะเล (mên-tá-lee), หอยเม่น (hɔ̌i-mên)
• Tibetan: མཚོ་རྒང (mtsho rgang, literally “sea-hedgehog”)
• Turkish: denizkestanesi (tr)
• Ukrainian: морський їжак m (morsʹkyj jižak)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: денгиз типратикан (dengiz tipratikan)

  Roman: dengiz tipratikan

• Vietnamese: cầu gai (vi), nhím biển, nhum, nhum biển
• Welsh: môr-ddraenog m, draenog môr m, ŵy môr m
• West Coast Bajau: utim
• Yámana: ákis

See also

• sand dollar

Anagrams

• echiurans