urchin

Converse of object

• fossilize: A Pret a Manger soy sauce bottle in the shape of a fish sits comfortably next to a fossilized sea urchin.
• include: Other fossils include the sea urchins ( echinoids ), which occur in a number of varieties.
• find: The fossil of a sea urchin found in Middlesex is said to be 70 million years ord.
• see: The webmaster has childhood memories here of fisherman mending their nets and seeing urchins being prepared for eating.
• form: The fossil is part of a test ( internal shell ) of a sea urchin formed about 85 million years ago.
• have: By what instinct has the urchin acquired this skill?

Adjective modifier

• spiny: In other parts the rocks were totally bare from having been grazed by massive numbers of spiny sea urchins.
• little: Once in the lock up to 10 little urchins came to watch the proceedings.
• young: Newcomer Oliver Golding does a believable and charming job as the young urchin Ewin, tho he's clearly not a native Scot.
• small: As Trimus and the others walked to the guard house, small street urchins ran along beside and behind begging for tales not coins.
• black: Marine life is made up of crustaceans, echinoderms, spiny black sea urchins and a resident school of spotted sweetlips.
• edible: Underwater you'll find plenty of anemones, Ross corals and edible sea urchins.

Modifies a noun

• spine: Not all urchin spines are suitable for this work.
• outfit: I only ordered yesterday afternoon the urchin outfit for my son who is dressing up as Oliver for his school book week.
• shell: If one holds an empty urchin shell and lifts it to the light, the bandings of small pin size holes will be seen.
• egg: A classical biology course will cover in vitro fertilization of urchin eggs and their observation.
• plate: Although composed of a single crystal of calcite, a sea urchin plate exhibits a bicontinuous morphology with pores of diameter 10-15 micron.

Noun used with modifier

• sea: In coastal areas there can also be painful results from standing on sea urchins or contact with the spines of certain fish.
• street: The chalk artist saw in the little street urchin what nobody else saw - a potential masterpiece!
• heart: At Torre Abbey Sands some erosion took place, exposing the forest bed and digging out many heart urchins.