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Definition of Heart urchin
1. Noun. Sea urchin having a heart-shaped body in a rigid spiny shell.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heart Urchin
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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