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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A globular sea-urchin; one of the echini proper, or regular sea-urchins, as distinguished from the flat ones known as cake-urchins, or the cordate ones called heart-urchins.
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yarb commented on the word egg-urchin
Itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot echini
March 3, 2022
yarb commented on the word egg-urchin
I heart egg-urchin, and egg heart-urchin.
March 3, 2022
yarb commented on the word egg-urchin
Team globular!
March 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word egg-urchin
Cake-urchin? It's a pantry invasion.
March 3, 2022
yarb commented on the word egg-urchin
I'm told one can't have one's cake-urchin and also eat it.
March 3, 2022
bilby commented on the word egg-urchin
I suppose if you put enough egg-urchins into a cake-urchin you can bake a sponge-urchin. Can anyone confirm?
March 3, 2022
yarb commented on the word egg-urchin
I think that would be an odd kind of a sponge, only just about spongieuse.
March 4, 2022