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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The test or case of a sea-urchin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

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