Crossword-Solution: ECHINUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Echinus | n. | A hedgehog. |
| Echinus | n. | A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe. |
| Echinus | n. | The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature. |
| Echinus | n. | The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column |
| Echinus | n. | A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZAEMCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ECHINUS (5)
Cuddie and his mother in 'Old Mortality!') you would buy yourself a rivet, it would show more sense in you!' The Scholiast explains echinus as [Greek phrase deleted from etext]." One more illustration for the oddity's sake from the "Autobiography of a Cornish Rector," by the late James Hamley Tregenna.
ECHINUS MILIARIS (_See Plate_ 7); (_a_) teeth and digesting mill; (_b_) suckers, enlarged; (_c_) spine and socket; (_d_) shell denuded; (_e_) Pedicellaria.
These forceps can seize firmly hold of any object; and Alexander Agassiz has seen an Echinus or sea-urchin rapidly passing particles of excrement from forceps to forceps down certain lines of its body, in order that its shell should not be fouled.
Perrier as bearing two kinds of pedicellariæ, one resembling those of Echinus, and the other those of Spatangus; and such cases are always interesting as affording the means of apparently sudden transitions, through the abortion of one of the two states of an organ.
Again, the echinus of the capital is in the early period widely flaring, making in some very early examples an angle at the start of not more than fifteen or twenty degrees with the horizontal (Fig.
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Appears in: Crossroads, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1980–2005).