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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various thin circular echinoderms of the order Clypeasteroida, especially Echinarachnius parma, of coastal northern Atlantic and Pacific waters, having a covering of short movable spines.
- noun The disklike internal skeleton of a sand dollar, having five radially symmetric oblong markings and often a pattern of long narrow holes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A flat sea-urchin, as Echinarachnius parma, or Mellita quinquefora; a cake-urchin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
echinoderm , of the orderClypeastroida , that has a flat, disk-shaped body with the mouth in a mid-ventral position, and lives in sand, on or near the surface
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flattened disklike sea urchins that live on sandy bottoms
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treeseed commented on the word sand dollar
any of numerous flat circular sea urchins (order Clypeasteroida) that live chiefly in shallow water on sandy bottoms
January 25, 2008
sionnach commented on the word sand dollar
I wonder what they call flat circular street urchins.
January 25, 2008
treeseed commented on the word sand dollar
There's a Christian legend about the sand dollar and its markings.
January 25, 2008
treeseed commented on the word sand dollar
Sionnach,
Probably sand dollarless
January 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word sand dollar
Haha! *picturing flat, circular street urchins*
January 26, 2008