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Sentence Examples The state of California encouraged the fledgling industry in the 1970s when a lucrative market was found for sea urchin roe in Japan. She was a four-month old stray, a street urchin who'd been picked up by a dogcatcher. Opening the small cover of the wooden bowl, you can see a golden sea urchin covering a small stewed crab cake. Brittle stars also have pluteus larvae with skeletal spicules that resemble those of the urchin. It was Julian, the urchin who had once served the coarse wine in The Oranges bar. Settling near a hungry snail could be disastrous for a peanut worm, and landing too far from kelp would doom a sea urchin to starvation. This species of heart urchin is found throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans, from Mauritius to the coast of Central America. So the heart urchin is considered to be secondarily bilaterally symmetrical. Other images are just as mystifying the spine of a sea urchin, sharks' teeth, sponges and ascidians, to name a few. With a bald head, thin limbs and swollen belly, he is a street urchin of about eight. Well, the young girl just ran after the urchin, down the street she ran, and turned the corner. The young urchin had learned that move while wrestling with the other boys in the East Hill streets. He looked shocked and hurt that his mother had so openly smacked him as if he were a street urchin. The appetizer was promising, featuring crab and sea urchin and avocado and blood orange. Who would have thought a little urchin from a Polish ghetto would become a leading scientist? The sea urchin occupies an important evolutionary position with respect to vertebrates and humans. The sea urchin is one of the few marine organisms whose genome has been sequenced. The inner shell of a sea urchin is a hollow globe, scored in five curved sections that taper at the ends into a small hole at the top and bottom. Yields of herring, sea urchin and rockfish also dropped dramatically during this season. The urchin got up a second time with the murderous expression of a dog scenting blood. Show More Sentences Scattered on the cloth are pinecones and seashells, a sand dollar, a starfish, a sea urchin. If some disaffected street urchin adopted the tone on the train home, a manly Bunyip would shield the little woman with his body and prepare to wield a menacing umbrella. A dish called the Tidal Pool has a subtly tinged grace of oysters, urchin, wakame, and wood-ear mushroom, but its ethereal subtlety matches nothing on the menu. A ramekin of caviar-topped whipped urchin appears without asking. This study examines skeleton remodelling and resorption in larvae of the common sand dollar Echinarachnius parma and the green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis. If you are unsure about how to cut open a scallop or sea urchin, fillet a brill or clean an octopus, just ask your local fishmonger to do it for you. The subject was a cheeky-faced, chubby-bottomed urchin of about twelve. This sea urchin defends itself with two sets of mobile spines. If you are the twenty-third baronet of Mortshire, you cannot pass your baronetcy to the street urchin you took in thirty years ago and raised as if he were your son. Sea urchin basically tastes briny, like oysters without the muckiness. I was chased away by men in suits who thought that I was a street urchin. I suggested that we pay a passing urchin from the township to go and count the whales for us, but the curvaceous news hound insisted that we do it ourselves. Her wet-sleeved urchin takes advantage of the soapy water to blow bubbles. Some little sticky-fingered urchin stole it from the teacher's desk. The only negative aspect, was I got stuck in one of my toes by a sea urchin spine. I have since explored the puncture wound after coming home and found nothing. The sea urchin genus Abatus burrow through the sediment eating the nutrients they find in it. Granuloma and staining of the skin from the natural dye inside the sea urchin can also occur. The spines, long and sharp in some species, protect the urchin from predators. Cultivation of the heart urchin Echinocardium cordatum and validation of its use in marine toxicity testing for environmental risk assessment. Each of these areas consists of two rows of plates, so the sea urchin test includes 20 rows of plates in total. Show More Sentences I guess that's to be expected when you order raw sea urchin from a restaurant that has several aquariums full of the spiny echinoderms. The extensive sushi and sashimi menu features sea urchin, flying fish roe, sweet shrimp, jackfish and fatty tuna. I had everything from raw hamachi with sea urchin to lamb tongue. If you look carefully, a sand dollar is merely a sea urchin in flattened form. Henner brings off Annie's transformation from urchin to belle with wonderful ease, and she's got a beautiful voice. Munoz found that these lionfish had been eating the occasional sea urchin, brittle star, crab, shrimp, and mollusk. They were also diving to feed on blue mussels and other underwater food sources like the green sea urchin. Illegal fishing targets some of the most expensive species, including shrimp, fugu pufferfish, lobster, whole abalone and sea urchin uni. Nevertheless, galactolipids, rather than phlorotannins, act as herbivore deterrents in this species against the sea urchin Arbacia punctulata. What was previously a kelp forest becomes an urchin barren that may last for years and this can have a profound effect on the food chain. Pickled red beets in the shape of hearts will decorate another oyster, as well as sea urchin, leek, and rose petal comfiture. North Pacific areas that do not have sea otters often turn into urchin barrens, with abundant sea urchins and no kelp forest. As of 2013, the state was limiting the practice to 300 sea urchin diver licenses. Left unchecked, urchins devastate their environments, creating what biologists call an urchin barren, devoid of macroalgae and associated fauna. Japanese demand for sea urchin corals has raised concerns about overfishing. The gonads of both male and female sea urchins, usually called sea urchin roe or corals, are culinary delicacies in many parts of the world. Breathing problems may indicate a serious reaction to toxins in the sea urchin. Signature dishes include sea urchin in lobster jelly topped with cauliflower cream, crispy langoustine papillote with basil, and freerange quail with foie gras. Sea urchin injuries are caused by contact with sea urchins, and are characterized by puncture wounds inflicted by the animal's brittle, fragile spines. Sea urchin puncture wounds are a common source of injury to ocean swimmers, especially along coastal surfaces where coral with stationary sea urchins are present. Show More Sentences The sea urchin has many genes linked to human diseases such as Huntington's chorea, muscular dystrophy, Usher syndrome, neurological disorders, and atherosclerosis. Sea urchins, for example, can reduce entire areas to urchin barrens. In addition, there are many invertebrate species, including sponge, jellyfish, anemone, crab, mollusc, sea urchin, starfish, sea cucumber and coral. It is one of the few sea urchin that can survive many hours out of water. Gianni, the street-smart and ever-hungry urchin, is wise beyond his years. With her whispy blonde locks and love of ripped fishnets and Doc Marten boots, the grungy Gossip Girl star looks more street urchin than achingly cool starlet. During early development, the sea urchin embryo undergoes 10 cycles of cell division, resulting in a single epithelial layer enveloping a blastocoel. Urchin pits and piddock and date mussel holes are valuable habitat for other animals. I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them. Examples from Classical Literature I saw a tyrant in every urchin that was stronger than myself, and a derider in him that was weaker. Not before the skeleton or mesenchyme is formed in the sea urchin egg is the influence of the nucleus noticeable. Another egg placed under identical conditions will develop into a sea urchin, and another into an oyster. All at once the urchin came to a halt and planted himself in front of Henriette. And as the coughing urchin groans, and claps his hand to his mouth, distained is the snowball that drops unlaunched at his feet. Listen, you Kozlov urchin, you just keep your hands in your pockets, because Leibrutz is here! This subkingdom comprises at present such familiar forms as the crinoid, the starfish, and the sea urchin. A small ragged urchin asked him the time, and that casual touch of communalism made him feel more at home. Once you've had your fill of the tender, ubiquitous flying fish, you can select spicy shrimp or chicken dishes, sea urchin or stuffed crab backs. The Japanese market for live sea urchin and sea urchin roe from the United States is growing rapidly, but it has not yet been fully developed. And here, paddling in the brook like an urchin, we found bumblepuppy. On the doorstep, she met the little urchin whose marvellous feats of gastronomy have been recorded in the earlier pages of our narrative. One urchin shall hereafter be a doctor, and administer pills and potions, and stalk gravely through life, perfumed with assafoetida. The urchin tried to dart behind the others and in the scuffle the babe, Tommie, was knocked down. He lowered his voice as if a sea urchin might hear and tattle. Why was it not possible to prove this fact for the eggs of the sea urchin? The writer tried to decide this question in the egg of the sea urchin. After saving for months for the trip he was ROBBED at gunpoint, STUNG by a sea urchin, BEDRIDDEN by sunstroke and HEAD-BUTTED by a giraffe. The urchin got a smart rap on the palm of his hand with the ruler. The urchin looked proudly up in his face, but made no reply. Show More Sentences A boy wanted to take his carpet bag, but he shook the urchin off. On a ragged cot lay the urchin to whom Robby had given the biscuits. An urchin who had frequently seen him before, stopped to gaze. He stared dizzily in all directions, but none looked at him save a Hindu urchin in a dirty turban and Isabella-coloured clothes. An urchin who was looking on offered to go and find Pre pilon. The musical explores the friendships of street urchin and public school boy from cradle to grave. Set on the Liverpool docks during the Victorian era, it is a rags to riches tale which follows the life of a street urchin called Benny Bates. Her shop thrives using unusual ingredients and Mrs Lovett takes plucky street urchin Toby under herwing. The pebble loosened from the frost Asks of the urchin to be tost. In the Atlantic, a fungus of unknown origin spread from Panama in the 1980s and wiped out the entire sea urchin population in the Gulf and Caribbean in a matter of years. Bruce said his team showed it in abundance, especially Rowan Vine who, scampering about and teasing the defence like a rough-and-ready street urchin, seemed to enjoy it. Tom, as has been already said, was a robust and combative urchin, and at the age of four began to struggle against the yoke and authority of his nurse. As I swallowed the eggy mass, observing the still-waving spines of the eviscerated animal, the question lingered, much like the salty-sweet aftertaste of the urchin. Weena, who had been rolling a sea urchin down the sloping glass of a case, presently came, as I stared about me, and very quietly took my hand and stood beside me. A host of events planned in association with the Nuneaton Chamber of Trade include a carol singing competition, a street urchin competition and a firework display. Benny Bates claws his way up from humble street urchin to gentleman. Find more words! 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