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echinacean

echinacean noun: any sea urchin of the superorder Echinacea.

Noun

echinacean (plural echinaceans)

  1. Any sea urchin of the superorder Echinacea.
    • The echinaceans range from Late Triassic to present-day and are all regular echinoids, with more complex structures than occur in the diademataceans.1996, Carroll Lane Fenton, The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life, page 322

Forms of echinacean

pluralechinaceans

Questions about echinacean

What does echinacean mean?
Echinacean means any sea urchin of the superorder Echinacea.
What part of speech is echinacean?
Echinacean is a noun.
What is the plural of echinacean?
The plural of echinacean is echinaceans.

Words near echinacean in the dictionary

  1. Echikunwoke
  2. echimyid
  3. echimyids
  4. echimyine
  5. echinacea
  6. echinacean
  7. echinaceans
  8. echinaceas
  9. echinacoside
  10. Echinades
  11. echinasterid

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