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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of echinoids or sea-urchins of the family Melonitidæ, characterized by having a large test and broad ambulacra consisting of eight to eighteen columns of small imbricating plates. The genus is found in the Subcarboniferous rocks of North America.

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