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echinoid

Syllables: e·chi·noid/ˈɛk.əˌnɔɪd/

echinoid noun: any sea urchin or sea dollar of the class Echinoidea.

Noun

echinoid (plural echinoids)

  1. Any sea urchin or sea dollar of the class Echinoidea.

Adjective

echinoid

  1. Resembling a sea urchin.

echinoid meaning in Tamil

echinoid in Tamil

கூர்முட் தோலி

Forms of echinoid

pluralechinoids

Origin of echinoid

From echino- + -oid.

Questions about echinoid

What does echinoid mean?
Echinoid means any sea urchin or sea dollar of the class Echinoidea.
What is echinoid in Tamil?
Echinoid in Tamil is கூர்முட் தோலி. See Echinoid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is echinoid?
Echinoid can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce echinoid?
Echinoid is pronounced /ˈɛk.əˌnɔɪd/.
What is the plural of echinoid?
The plural of echinoid is echinoids.

Words near echinoid in the dictionary

  1. echinodermic
  2. echinodermology
  3. echinoderms
  4. echinofauna
  5. echinofaunas
  6. echinoid
  7. echinoids
  8. echinological
  9. echinologist
  10. echinologists
  11. echinology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: echinoid (page history and authors); echinoid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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