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echinaceans

echinaceans is the plural of echinacean.

Meaning of echinacean

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

Questions about echinaceans

What is echinaceans the plural of?
Echinaceans is the plural of echinacean.

Words near echinaceans in the dictionary

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

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