Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The representative genus of the family Spatangidæ, and a type form of the irregular sea-urchins called
Spatangoida . - noun A species of this genus: as, the violet spatangus
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.
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There are two other species, the spatangus, and the so-called bryssus, these animals are pelagic and scarce.
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