Echinus

Definition: Echinus

Echinus

Noun

1. Ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column.

Etymology: Echinus \E*chi"nus\, noun; plural Echini. [Latin expression, hedgehog, sea urchin, Greek]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Echinus

English words defined with "echinus": Echini, Echinus esculentus ♦ Fusarole ♦ Medicago echinus. (references)

Etymologies containing "echinus": Echinoidea, Echinozoa. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Echinus" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Hungarian (echinus).

Expressions using "echinus": echinus esculentus ♦ medicago echinus. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "echinus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		iriq deti (sea urchin). (various references)

Arabic		‏قنفد البحر (urchin). (various references)

Bulgarian		морски таралеж (sand-dollar, sea urchin, urchin), ехин. (various references)

French		échinide. (various references)

Hungarian		echinus, tengeri sün (sea urchin). (various references)

Pig Latin		echinusay.(various references)

Portuguese		escalonar. (various references)

Romanian		arici de mare (hedgehog). (various references)

Russian		эхин, морской еж (sea urchin, sea-urchin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrsta morskog ježa, nalik na morskog ježa. (various references)

Spanish		erizo de mar (sea urchin). (various references)

Swedish		sjöborre (sea urchin). (various references)

Ukranian		морський їжак, ехін. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Echinus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acinus, Aeschines, echinea, echinos, enchinus, Encrinus, Ictinus, Mechanus, Schinus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "echinus" (pronounced 'E*chi"nus'): Agnus, Alumnus, Anthrenus, Anus, Bonus, Cincinnus, Clonus, Conus, Cothurnus, Cygnus, Dictamnus, Faunus, genus, Janus, Marbrinus, Onus, Pandanus, Pannus, Pignus, Pinus, subgenus, Tabanus, tonus, Turnus, Uncinus, Varanus, Venus. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: chines, inches, incuse, niches.
	-2 letters: chine, chins, cines, cuish, incus, niche, shine, since.
	-3 letters: chin, chis, cine, cues, ecus, hens, hies, hins, hisn, hues, huic, huns, ices, ichs, inch, nice, shin, shun, sice, sine, sinh, such, unci.
	-4 letters: chi, cis, cue, ecu, ens, hen, hes, hic, hie, hin, his, hue, hun, ice, ich, ins, nus, sec, sei, sen, she, sic, sin, sue, sun, uns, use.
	-5 letters: eh, en, es, he, hi, in, is, ne, nu, sh, si, uh, un, us.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-n-s-u"
	+1 letter: fuchsine, munchies, penuchis, subniche.
	+2 letters: bunchiest, chunkiest, cushioned, eunuchism, euphenics, euthenics, fuchsines, lichenous, punchiest, squinched, squinches, subniches, unhitches.
	+3 letters: chubbiness, chumminess, crunchiest, eunuchisms, eunuchoids, euthanasic, hurricanes, ichneumons, lunchtimes, naumachies, paunchiest, raunchiest, scheduling, squelching, techniques, touchiness, touchlines, unclinches, unesthetic, unstitched, unstitches.
	+4 letters: bullfinches, chirurgeons, crunchiness, cultishness, cushionless, deinonychus, grouchiness, huckstering, outscheming, paunchiness, puckishness, raunchiness, scouthering, sepulchring, slouchiness, technetiums, unaesthetic.
	+5 letters: buccaneerish, bunchberries, chloroquines, chubbinesses, chumminesses, churchliness, churlishness, cliquishness, consumership, echinococcus, enthusiastic, euchromatins, hallucinates, hallucinoses, hermeneutics, ipecacuanhas, neurasthenic, neurochemist, nucleophiles, packinghouse, punchinellos, repurchasing, rescheduling, sepulchering, touchinesses, unchastities, unchristened, undischarged, unhysterical.
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