echinacean

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noun

Any sea urchin of the superorder Echinacea.

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Meanings

nounechinacean (plural echinaceans)

plural echinaceans

  1. Any sea urchin of the superorder Echinacea.

    The echinaceans range from Late Triassic to present-day and are all regular echinoids, with more complex structures than occur in the diademataceans.

    1996, Carroll Lane Fenton, The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life, page 322
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APA

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Chicago

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