Crossword clues for echinus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Echinus \E*chi"nus\, n.; pl. Echini. [L., a hedgehog, sea urchin, Gr. 'echi^nos.]
(Zo["o]l.) A hedgehog.
(Zo["o]l.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.
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(Arch.)
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 the Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. 2 (context architecture English) The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. 3 (context architecture English) The egg-and-anchor or egg-and-dart moulding, because often identified with the Roman Doric capital.
WordNet
n. ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column
[also: echini (pl)]
Wikipedia
Echinus may refer to:
- Echinus (Acarnania), a town in Acarnania, western Greece
- Echinus (Phthiotis), a town on the northern shore of the Malian Gulf in Greece
- Echinus (molding), a molding similar to the ovolo
- Echinus (sea urchin), a genus of animals
- Echinus (window manager), a window manager
- Echinus (plant), a synonym for the plant genus Mallotus
Usage examples of "echinus".
Among the molluscs and zoophytes, I found in the meshes of the net several species of alcyonarians, echini, hammers, spurs, dials, cerites, and hyalleae.
Beyond them lay slopes of some blackish slag-like material which were dotted with lovely coloured creatures, holothurians, ascidians, echini and echinoderms, as thickly as ever an English spring time bank was sprinkled with hyacinths and primroses.
The museum comprehended an infinite number of medals, coins, urns, utensils, seals, cameos, intaglios, precious stones, vessels of agate and jasper, crystals, spars, fossils, metals, minerals, ore, earths, sands, salts, bitumens, sulphurs, ambergrise, talcs, mirre, testacea, corals, sponges, echini, echenites, asteri, trochi, crustatia, stellae marine, fishes, birds, eggs and nests, vipers, serpents, quadrupeds, insects, human calculi, anatomical preparations, seeds, gums, roots, dried plants, pictures, drawings, and mathematical instruments.
Of the echinodermes, remarkable for their coating of spines, asteri, sea-stars, pantacrinae, comatules, asterophons, echini, holothuri, etc.
Early in the boring the sandstone had given place to a vein of Comanchian limestone, full of minute fossil cephalopods, corals, echini, and spirifera, and with occasional suggestions of siliceous sponges and marine vertebrate bones - the latter probably of teleosts, sharks, and ganoids.
Early in the boring the sandstone had given place to a vein of Comanchian limestone, full of minute fossil cephalopods, corals, echini, and spirifera, and with occasional suggestions of siliceous sponges and marine vertebrate bones--the latter probably of teleosts, sharks, and ganoids.
Beyond them lay slopes of some blackish slag-like material which were dotted with lovely coloured creatures, holothurians, ascidians, echini and echinoderms, as thickly as ever an English spring time bank was sprinkled with hyacinths and primroses.
Among the mollusks and zoöphytes, I found in the meshes of the net several species of alcyonarians, echini, hammers, spurs, dials, cerites, and hyalleæ.