Urchin
noun
A small child who is poorly or raggedly dressed.
The little urchin has been stealing food from the market to survive.
Often appears as...
- street urchin
- little urchin
noun
A mischievous young child, particularly one who is poor or neglected.
The mischievous urchin ran away after throwing the snowball at the window.
Often appears as...
- mischievous urchin
- playful urchin
noun
A sea creature with a round shell covered with sharp spines, often used as food.
The sea urchin's spines can be sharp and harmful if not handled properly.
Often appears as...
- sea urchin
- urchin roe
noun
A small child who is poorly or raggedly dressed.
The little urchin has been stealing food from the market to survive.
Often appears as...
- street urchin
- little urchin
noun
A mischievous young child, particularly one who is poor or neglected.
The mischievous urchin ran away after throwing the snowball at the window.
Often appears as...
- mischievous urchin
- playful urchin
noun
A sea creature with a round shell covered with sharp spines, often used as food.
The sea urchin's spines can be sharp and harmful if not handled properly.
Often appears as...
- sea urchin
- urchin roe
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Poverty Connotation
Suggests the child comes from a disadvantaged background, invoking sympathy or social issues.
The urchin wandered the streets, his eyes reflecting a life of hardship.
Pro Tip 2/3Victorian Era
Commonly used in historical contexts, especially literature about or set in the Victorian period.
Dickens novels often feature urchins in the gloomy alleys of London.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Elicits a clear image of the child's appearance, typically unkempt and dirty.
The small urchin's clothes were tattered, barely hanging onto his thin frame.
Pro Tip 1/3Poverty Connotation
Suggests the child comes from a disadvantaged background, invoking sympathy or social issues.
The urchin wandered the streets, his eyes reflecting a life of hardship.
Pro Tip 2/3Victorian Era
Commonly used in historical contexts, especially literature about or set in the Victorian period.
Dickens novels often feature urchins in the gloomy alleys of London.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Elicits a clear image of the child's appearance, typically unkempt and dirty.
The small urchin's clothes were tattered, barely hanging onto his thin frame.
Pro Tip 1/3Poverty Connotation
Suggests the child comes from a disadvantaged background, invoking sympathy or social issues.
The urchin wandered the streets, his eyes reflecting a life of hardship.
Pro Tip 2/3Victorian Era
Commonly used in historical contexts, especially literature about or set in the Victorian period.
Dickens novels often feature urchins in the gloomy alleys of London.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Elicits a clear image of the child's appearance, typically unkempt and dirty.
The small urchin's clothes were tattered, barely hanging onto his thin frame.
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The science of symmetry...
or well coordinated legs for running if you're a fox. But, what does this all have to do with evolution? Turns out, biologists can use these various body symmetries to figure out which animals are related to which. For instance, we saw that starfish and sea urchins have five-fold symmetry. But really what we should have said was
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Gary Greenberg: The...
that's a sea urchin spine. Really some amazing stuff. So when I first looked at this, I was -- I thought, gee, this is like a little treasure trove here. I couldn't believe it, and I'd go around dissecting the little bits out and making photographs of them. Here's what most of the sand in our world looks like.
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
invested in them they learned it from plants ceramics from waste co2 this is a sea urchin that's teaching us how to pull the co2 out of smokestacks to make ceramics because you use those in 3d printing as well our waste cellulose our papers when you recycle them the fibers
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An underwater art...
to encourage crustaceans such as lobsters and sea urchins. So why exhibit my work in the ocean? Because honestly, it's really not easy. When you're in the middle of the sea under a hundred-foot crane, trying to lower eight tons down to the sea floor,
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Sea Animal Camouflage PIPE...
in other species some animals enlist other creatures defenses for their own protection the Colemans shrimp lives safe among the venomous spines of a sea urchin with its hard outer shell there's no risk of it being stung
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A brief tour of the last...
The day life nearly died. A single, lonely tusked mammal survived and thrived, but it was soon replaced by galloping crocodiles. In the ocean, marine reptiles, giant rafts made of the living relatives of sea urchins
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How Life Begins in the...
a tiny egg in a watery world. My parents never knew each other. One moonlit night before a storm, thousands of urchins, clams and corals released trillions of sperm and eggs into the open sea.
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The Sea Otter's...
urchins without them small undersea life would over graze destroying the kelp forests that feed and protect marine mammals
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Army of Sea Urchins? PIPE...
life in the kelp is as full of drama as in any other forest but the cast is less familiar an army of sea urchins is
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Titan Triggerfish...
a sea urchin spines are no protection against teeth like these
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The science of symmetry...
or well coordinated legs for running if you're a fox. But, what does this all have to do with evolution? Turns out, biologists can use these various body symmetries to figure out which animals are related to which. For instance, we saw that starfish and sea urchins have five-fold symmetry. But really what we should have said was
Video examples
Gary Greenberg: The...
that's a sea urchin spine. Really some amazing stuff. So when I first looked at this, I was -- I thought, gee, this is like a little treasure trove here. I couldn't believe it, and I'd go around dissecting the little bits out and making photographs of them. Here's what most of the sand in our world looks like.
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
invested in them they learned it from plants ceramics from waste co2 this is a sea urchin that's teaching us how to pull the co2 out of smokestacks to make ceramics because you use those in 3d printing as well our waste cellulose our papers when you recycle them the fibers
Video examples
An underwater art...
to encourage crustaceans such as lobsters and sea urchins. So why exhibit my work in the ocean? Because honestly, it's really not easy. When you're in the middle of the sea under a hundred-foot crane, trying to lower eight tons down to the sea floor,
Video examples
Sea Animal Camouflage PIPE...
in other species some animals enlist other creatures defenses for their own protection the Colemans shrimp lives safe among the venomous spines of a sea urchin with its hard outer shell there's no risk of it being stung
Video examples
A brief tour of the last...
The day life nearly died. A single, lonely tusked mammal survived and thrived, but it was soon replaced by galloping crocodiles. In the ocean, marine reptiles, giant rafts made of the living relatives of sea urchins
Video examples
How Life Begins in the...
a tiny egg in a watery world. My parents never knew each other. One moonlit night before a storm, thousands of urchins, clams and corals released trillions of sperm and eggs into the open sea.
Video examples
The Sea Otter's...
urchins without them small undersea life would over graze destroying the kelp forests that feed and protect marine mammals
Video examples
Army of Sea Urchins? PIPE...
life in the kelp is as full of drama as in any other forest but the cast is less familiar an army of sea urchins is
Video examples
Titan Triggerfish...
a sea urchin spines are no protection against teeth like these
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Eugenie Clark
American Scientist
I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks.
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Frank Gehry
American Architect
My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.
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Bill O'Reilly
American Journalist
Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it.
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Alice Waters
American Chef
I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.
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Ben Eine
English Artist
Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I'm an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That's the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing.
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Junior Seau
American Athlete
For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.
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J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
American Chef
Making sea urchin pasta is a lot like a toddler playing with Play-Doh: There are a million right ways to do it, and most of them are salty and delicious.
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Andrew Zimmern
American Critic
Sardinia has to have some of the best seafood on the planet. I'm a sea urchin freak, and Sardinia's are some of the best I've had.
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Bernadette Devlin
Irish Politician
It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
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Peter Benchley
American Author
I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
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Eugenie Clark
American Scientist
I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks.
Quote examples
Frank Gehry
American Architect
My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.
Quote examples
Bill O'Reilly
American Journalist
Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it.
Quote examples
Alice Waters
American Chef
I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.
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Ben Eine
English Artist
Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I'm an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That's the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing.
Quote examples
Junior Seau
American Athlete
For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.
Quote examples
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
American Chef
Making sea urchin pasta is a lot like a toddler playing with Play-Doh: There are a million right ways to do it, and most of them are salty and delicious.
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Andrew Zimmern
American Critic
Sardinia has to have some of the best seafood on the planet. I'm a sea urchin freak, and Sardinia's are some of the best I've had.
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Bernadette Devlin
Irish Politician
It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
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Peter Benchley
American Author
I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
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