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Definition of Echinus

1. Noun. Ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column.

Definition of Echinus

1. n. A hedgehog.

Definition of Echinus

1. echinoid [n -NI] - See also: echinoid

Medical Definition of Echinus

1. Origin: L, a hedgehog, sea urchin, Gr. 1. A hedgehog. 2. A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe. 3. 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. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Echinus

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

1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"A segment of an echinus bearing a single row of ambulacral feet, when propped up on its ab-oral pole, (Fig. 11) will right itself after the manner of entire ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Or echinus properly so called, the shell is generally ... Tke common echinus is of the form and size of an apple, complex') covered with short, ..."

3. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine by Edward Hungerford Goddard, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1881)
"^ERHAPS the commonest of the few fossils, found in thia neighbourhood, is that of the echinus, or Sea Urchin, and and as there are fortunately several ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"The object of this investigation was to examine by means of modern methods the manner in which the various organs of the adult echinus are fashioned out of ..."

5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"700 BC) follows, in whkh the echinus moulding has become a more definite form: this ... Early Greek Capital from the Tomb of Agamemnon, Mycenae. the echinus ..."

6. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"... the unformed echinus within it gets a globular shape, the shell is formed, and when the echinus is complete, the rest of the Pluteus is thrown off, ..."

7. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1872)
"You can hardly see this to advantage in the living animal, but here is the entire shelly box of a dead echinus, on which, while for the most part the ..."

8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"700 BC) follows, in which the echinus moulding has become a more definite form: this in the ... Mycenae. the echinus becomes flatter in the later examples, ..."

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