Definition of Heart urchin

1. Noun. Sea urchin having a heart-shaped body in a rigid spiny shell.

Generic synonyms: Sea Urchin
Group relationships: Order Spatangoida, Spatangoida

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heart Urchin

heart rate monitor
heart rhythm
heart rupture
heart sac
heart septal defects
heart septum
heart sounds
heart specialist
heart stroke
heart surgeon
heart surgery
heart tamponade
heart to heart
heart tones
heart transplantation
heart urchin (current term)
heart valve
heart valve prolapse
heart valve prosthesis
heart valve prosthesis implantation
heart valves
heart ventricle
heartache
heartaches
heartachey
heartachingly
heartachy
heartake
heartbalm
heartbeat

Literary usage of Heart urchin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"... inhabiting the common heart urchin. By RT LEIPER. The turbellarian described in this paper was found by me in the accessory canal of about 8 per cent, ..."

2. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"—The Heart-urchin, and its Alode of digging in the Sand.—The Spade: its Shapes and Uses.—Natural Spades.—Fore-foot of the Mole and ..."

3. Handbook to the City of Dublin and the Surrounding District by Grenville Arthur James Cole, R. Lloyd Praeger (1908)
"... specimens of the Rosy Heart-urchin (E.flavescens] were mentioned by Forbes as having been taken in Dublin Bay by R. Ball. The Purple Heart-urchin ..."

4. Contributions Towards a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork by J. R. Harvey, Thomas C. Power, John D. Humphreys (1845)
"Purple heart urchin. Cork. 24. ... Common heart urchin. Cork. 25. ... Rosy Heart Urchin. Youghal. ..."

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