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echinus

echinus is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hedgehog. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    A hedgehog.

  2. 2noun

    A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.

  3. 3noun

    The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature.

  4. 4noun

    The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column

  5. 5noun

    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.

  6. 6noun

    ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column

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