Vocabulary : Echinococcus to Echinus

Echinococcus : A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.
Echinoderm : One of the Echinodermata.
Echinodermal : Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
Echinodermata : One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata.
Echinodermatous : Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.

Echinoid : Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea. ;; One of the Echinoidea.
Echinoidea : The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid.
Echinozoa : The Echinodermata.
Echinulate : Set with small spines or prickles.
Echinus : A hedgehog. ;; A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe. ;; The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature. ;; The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column ;; 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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