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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various thin circular echinoderms of the class Echinoidea, especially Echinarachnius parma, of coastal northern Atlantic and Pacific waters, having a covering of short movable spines.
  2. n. The disklike internal skeleton of a sand dollar, having five radially symmetric oblong markings and often a pattern of slotlike holes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A flat sea-urchin, as Echinarachnius parma, or Mellita quinquefora; a cake-urchin. The fishermen on the coast of Maine and New Brunswick sometimes prepare a marking-ink from sand-dollars, by rubbing off the spines and skin, and, after pulverizing, making the mass into a thin paste with water. See placenta, Scutellidæ, shield-urchin, and cuts under Encope, cake-urchin, and sea-urchin.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An echinoderm, of the order Clypeastroida, that has a flat, disk-shaped body with the mouth in a mid-ventral position, and lives in sand, on or near the surface

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) any one of several species of small flat circular sea urchins, which live on sandy bottoms, especially Echinarachnius parma of the American coast.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. flattened disklike sea urchins that live on sandy bottoms

Examples

  • “For his part, Eli attempted the defense that every afflicted and hunted beast attempts, the defense of a sand dollar that settles into the ocean floor or a beaten dog that cowers beneath his forepaws, the worthless twin defenses of shrinkage and anonymity.”

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  1. sea urchin

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  1. rosette
  1. wheel-urchin
  1. sand dollar
  1. cake-urchin
  1. placenta
  1. scutellidæ
  1. dollarfish

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  • reesetee Haha! *picturing flat, circular street urchins* Jan 25, 2008

  • treeseed Sionnach,
    Probably sand dollarless Jan 25, 2008

  • treeseed There's a Christian legend about the sand dollar and its markings. Jan 25, 2008

  • sionnach I wonder what they call flat circular street urchins. Jan 25, 2008

  • treeseed any of numerous flat circular sea urchins (order Clypeasteroida) that live chiefly in shallow water on sandy bottoms Jan 25, 2008

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