Ech in asteridæ (ekinasteride)

pl. [NL., Fibre echinated by laterally projecting spicules. Lendenfeld. Echini (e-kin i), n. pl. [L., pl. of echinus, a hedgehog, sea-urchin: see echinus.] 1. In Cuvier's system of cla ification, the second family of pedicellate echinoderms, containing the sea-urchins: equivalent to several modern families, or to the whole of the order or cla Echi noidea.-2. [ l. c.] Plural of ecninus. that the pelage is bristly or mixed with flattened echinid (ek'i-nid), n. One of the Echinidæ. spines), South American; E. cayennensis is the best-known. nomys . Echinida (e-kin'i-dä), n. pl. Same as Echinidæ. Echinidæ (e-kin'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., Echinocardium cordatum. A genus of spatangoid sea-urchins, or heart-urchins, of the family Spa tangida. E. cordatum occurs on both coasts of the Atlantic. Leske, 1778. Also called Am phidotus. ech i no chrome (e-ki'nōkrōm), n. [ Dr. C. A. MacMunn describes the spectroscopic or chemical characters of the blood of various worms and mollusks. One of the most interesting pigments which he has detected is that which he calls ech i no chrome , obtained from the per i visceral cavity of Strongylocentrotus livid us. Jour . Roy . Micros. Soc., 2d ser., VI. i. 48.