English-Thai Dictionary
echinus
N สัตว์ ทะเล พวก Echinoidea มี เปลือก แข็ง รูปทรง กลม และ ไม่มี หนาม sea urchin
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ECHINUS
n.[L. from Gr. ] A hedgehog. 1. A shell-fish set with prickles or spines. The Echinus, in natural history, forms a genus of Mollusca. The body is roundish, covered with a bony crust, and often beset with movable prickles. There are several species and some of them eatable.
2. With botanists, a prickly head or top of a plant; an echinated pericarp.
3. In architecture, a member or ornament near the bottom of Ionic, Corinthian or Composite capitals, so named from its roughness, resembling, in some measure, the spiny coat of a hedgehog.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
ECHINUS
E *chi "nus, n.; pl. Echini. Etym: [L., a hedgehog, sea urchin, Gr.
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A hedgehog.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.
3. (Arch. ) (a ) The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature. (b ) The quarter-round molding (ovolo ) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column (c ) 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
echinus
e chi nus |iˈkīnəs əˈkaɪnəs | ▶noun ( pl. echini |-nī | ) 1 Zoology a sea urchin. [Genus Echinus, class Echinoidea: several species, including the common European edible sea urchin (E. esculentus ).] 2 Architecture a rounded molding below an abacus on a Doric or Ionic capital. ORIGIN late Middle English: via Latin from Greek ekhinos ‘hedgehog, sea urchin. ’
Oxford Dictionary
echinus
echinus |ɪˈkʌɪnəs | ▶noun 1 Zoology a sea urchin. ●Genus Echinus, class Echinoidea: several species. 2 Architecture a rounded moulding below an abacus on a Doric or Ionic capital. ORIGIN late Middle English: via Latin from Greek ekhinos ‘hedgehog, sea urchin ’.
Duden Dictionary
Echinus
Echi nus Substantiv, maskulin , der |Ech i nus |lateinisch echinus < griechisch echĩnos 1 Zoologie Seeigel 2 Architektur die Deckplatte mit dem Säulenschaft verbindender Wulst am Kapitell einer dorischen Säule
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