echinus

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Latin echīnus (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos).

ATHENIANS Then, ah, we'll choose this snug thing here, Echinus, Shall we call the nestling spot? — Lysistrata, Aristophanes
Among the molluscs and zoophytes, I found in the meshes of the net several species of alcyonarians, echini, hammers, spurs, dials, cerites, and hyalleae. — Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne
Early in the boring the sandstone had given place to a vein of Comanchean limestone, full of minute fossil cephalopods, corals, echini, and spirifera, and with occasional suggestions of siliceous sponges and marine vertebrate bones--the latter probably of teliosts, sharks, and ganoids. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

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