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  • noun Attributive form of sea urchin

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Examples

  • Noma's serves Scandinavian specialties like truffles from the Swedish island of Gotland and new creations like cured scallops served with a sea-urchin sauce and dressed with sea-buckthorn berries.

    Brown Cheese And Birch: Nordic Foods' Appeal Grows J. S. Marcus 2011

  • It's not just sustenance -- it's baguettes blobbed with sea-urchin roe and smeared with Korean-mustard-oil butter, milk-braised turkey leg on Pullman, oak-smoked salami squished into an onion roll.

    The 101 Best Sandwiches In New York Grub Street New York 2010

  • Walking outside from the front door to my car was akin to bathing naked in a sea-urchin infested kiddy pool.

    Tauntaun Dissection « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2008

  • The three minimalist white fixtures have crisscrossed "skeletons" modeled on coral, sea-urchin shells and crayfish, respectively.

    Mother Nature, Design Guru 2008

  • Best to Corcyra go for cuttle-fish, for the acarne and the fat sea-skull the purple-fish, the little murex too, mice of the sea and the sea-urchin sweet.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Mr. Merritt says the controlled cacophony served as "a sea-urchin coating for the soft candy of the songs."

    Magnetic Fields: On the Road 2008

  • After squirting sea-urchin foam on diver scallops for a dozen years, he now tosses live lobsters by the hundreds into stainless-steel kettles.

    G'bye Truffles, Hello Ribs 2008

  • Best to Corcyra go for cuttle-fish, for the acarne and the fat sea-skull the purple-fish, the little murex too, mice of the sea and the sea-urchin sweet.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • In an article published in the scientific journal Evolution & Development, a group of researchers have discovered pieces of the "RA genetic machinery" in a sea-urchin, pushing its origin back in evolutionary time.

    Ancient signalling machinery 2006

  • The sea-urchin perfume (the word has since been changed to “scent” on the menu), which came with black sea bass, was rather lost on the beans, however, and the fish was a tad overcooked.

    Jovial Occasion: Italian-Inspired New American on Upper East Side 2005

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  • Attributive form of Xyzy}}.

    November 22, 2011

  • Common sea urchin (aracentrotus lividus). Also known as the sea chestnut.

    March 7, 2022

  • The large sea urchin (Echinus esculentus). Also knows as the European edible hedgehog.

    March 7, 2022

  • Green sea urchin (Psammechinus miliaris). Also known as the shore sea urchin.

    March 7, 2022

  • Black sea urchin (Diadema antillarum). Also known as the long-spined urchin.

    March 7, 2022

  • Pacific sand dollar sea urchin (Dendraster excentricus). Also known as the western sand dollar sea urchin.

    March 7, 2022

  • Five-hole sand dollar (Mellita quinquiesperforata).

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  • Six-hole urchin (Leodia sexiesperforata).

    March 7, 2022

  • There are many others, such as:

    Melon urchin (Echinus melo)

    Red pencil urchin (Heterocentrotus mammillatus)

    White sea urchin (Gracilechinus acutus)

    Snuff Box (Cidaris cidaris)

    Purple heart urchin (Spatangus purpureus)

    Red snuffbox (Stylocidaris affinis)

    Sea potato (Brissus unicolor)

    Purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus)

    Gatherer urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)

    Variegated sea urchin (Lytechinus variegatus)

    Burrowing urchin (Echinometra mathaei)

    Kina (Evechinus chloroticus)

    Flower sand dollar (Encope emarginata)

    Sea cake (Arachnoides placenta)

    Red sea urchin (Asthenosoma marisrubri)

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  • Those are fantastic, vendingmachine. Thank you!

    March 10, 2022