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Sentence Examples They grow to an impressive size and pass the time cracking open hard-shelled creatures like crabs and urchins between their fearsome teeth. Otters mostly feed on invertebrates such as urchins, squid, octopus, crabs, abalone and other mollusks. The types of seafood they eat include mussels, scallops, clams, crabs, lobsters, abalone, and sea urchins. Stories abound of coal wagons stripped of half their load by street urchins before a first delivery could be made. Years later he returns to London and organizes a group of street urchins into a petty crime gang which he joins. The elimination of sea otters for their pelts allowed explosions of sea urchins that ate all the kelps. Fresh of face and louche of manner, they are equal parts Dickensian urchins and Wildean dandies. At all developmental stages sand dollars exhibit higher relative activities of p-gp activity than sea urchins. There were sea anemones, lots of colorful starfish, and even some sea urchins. These thick mats of seaweed create underwater jungles that are home to fish, urchins, and other marine life. The water vascular system is not filled with seawater as in sea stars and urchins, but rather with a special body fluid. Divers have to look out for the barnacle covered surfaces and sea urchins as they explore the various levels of the King Cruiser. The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers. The ocean surrounding Australia is home to several species of sea urchins, which form elaborate exoskeletons made from carbonate minerals. The response to these biofilms was compared to biofilms generated in tanks where other invertebrates but no sea urchins were present. The streets were clogged with tourists and pilots jostling for position amidst the sea of vendors and street urchins. They had oysters, sea urchins, conch shells, tulip shells, starfish, and crabs either attached or living on them. Local people eat limpets and the gonads of shingle urchins uncooked but they eat nerites and periwinkles boiled. We are approached, then pursued, by a small posse of grubby, half-naked street urchins. Two native maids carried baskets of laundry, and some young urchins played a game with old dice, wagering stones. Show More Sentences He had told her that there would always be street urchins, to young and weak to work, scouring the streets for pockets to pick. It will be the first taste of love, stability and continuing care the ten former street urchins will have encountered. Some street urchins and migrant workers then moved in and produced a lot of rubbish in the building. The soft coral is far more spectacular than you expected and the urchins are there in their thousands. Kids also enjoy the tide pool touch tank filled with sea stars, urchins, and horseshoe crabs. The senior students were keen to observe the invertebrate marine animals, such as starfish, urchins and crustaceans. If the sea otters are not around to eat the urchins, scientists fear the urchins will wipe out the forests. Animals examined as part of the study include deep-ocean sea cucumbers, urchins and brittle stars. Without sea otters, urchins overgraze the kelp, eating the base of the plant so that it becomes detached from the sea floor and dies. You can find urchins and starfish on the rocky ledges and brittle stars and edible crabs on the sandy bottom. Abalone and urchins are two of the most prized and highly priced seafood delicacies worldwide. Where sea otters are present, the urchins are limited by otter predation and kelp forests are abundant. In the past, the fish and urchins fed on the algae, allowing the coral to grow. Common food items are small crustaceans, worms, brittlestars, sea urchins, and snails. A few sea urchins brood their eggs in special pouches, but most provide no parental care. A bunch of Maryhill urchins had a splendid view of proceedings from the scaffolding. His anecdotal scenes featuring comic urchins were considered vulgar by critics but appealed to wealthy industrialists. Ducking into the lanes and byroads whenever the urchins got hold of him was no permanent solution. The intertidal zone supplies fishermen with surf perch, cabezons, blennies, rock fish, pricklebacks, mussels and sea urchins. Growth on the hull of the wreck consists largely of small shells with grazing sea urchins and starfish. Show More Sentences Sea urchins and starfish are the last and most obvious group of marine creatures lurking to catch unwary and clumsy humans. Burrowing heart urchins have bands of very fine spines that are termed fascioles that help them live in fine sediments. I saw red fish, blue fish, stripy fish, fish with polka dots, urchins, giant clams, sharks and acres of variegated coral waving hello. But virtually all begging street urchins, maimed men, mothers suckling infants and other ragged destitutes are Tibetan, not Chinese. Some types of pedicellariae and specialized spines of urchins contain venom used in self-defense. He makes Eduardo and Hernandez look like the scrappy, ill-bred urchins they are. Middle-class, first-time parents will man the patrols with a three-wheel Bugaboo pushchair carrying their corn-fed, mop-topped urchins. It's very safe to swim in because of the gentleness of the incline, and the total absence of urchins or other visible sea life. Sea urchins, like bivalve molluscs, are cosmopolitan in their distribution. Spiny urchins crawl over much of the fairly lifeless rock, but we do see a moray, some curious wrasse and an eagle ray. Middle-class, first-time parents will man the patrols with a three-wheel pushchair carrying their corn-fed, mop-topped urchins. Unfortunately, blue gropers and crayfish, both popular species for eating, prey on one such creature, sea urchins. The mouth of urchins, located on the test's flat bottom, is called Aristotle's Lantern, named after the Greek philosopher who first described it. Having a neat hole in your front door isn't entirely wise in the days of wandering street urchins with fireworks in their pockets just ripe for destructive mischief. You will find brightly coloured anemones, firebrick starfish and urchins. Shake the crab harder, and you may dislodge tiny sea stars feeding on oysters and mussels, or sea urchins scavenging for seaweed and sedentary invertebrates. The street urchins lived in fear of some strange murderous cult. Hordes of urchins had gathered round Hobson as he left the church. But Jandd's massive Gabriel messenger bag is closer to the size most hard-working street urchins on wheels actually use for messengering, and it's definitely up to the task. The sandy patches yield burrowing starfish, rare delicate tube anemones, heart urchins, peacock flounders, and many species of nudibranch and sea hare. Show More Sentences Set in 2,500 square metres of land, the newly-built house, to be called Genesis, will become the refuge, and salvation, of ten destitute street urchins. Vendors hawked their wares while gesturing wildly, and groups of dirty street urchins played amidst the chaos, laughing and catcalling to one another. They passed a large rock covered in anemones, urchins, and sea stars. Birds, fish and mammals feast on the barnacles, snails, urchins and other animals that vary from tiny shore crabs to spectacular giant green anemones. Echinoids are one of the more diverse and successful echinoderm groups today, including familiar echinoderms such as the sea urchins and sand dollars. After the concert, the ustad watched happily as a few students, who were unlettered street urchins till recently, drew rudraveenas and wrote a paragraph about it each. We know this because he tells us so in speech after speech, and he shows us so by posing compassionately with little urchins in photo-op after photo-op. These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted. The scallywags and street urchins of 1920s Kingston had come up with a new way of extracting a few pennies from unsuspecting members of the public. Once in a while I grabbed scallops, sea urchins, and lobster. I don't miss the little street urchins who offered to mind the car for 50p, leaving you with a vague threat that they'd do your car in if you didn't pay up. In his paintings of newsboys, bootblacks, and street urchins, John George Brown sentimentalized urban poverty, while Blythe depicted children smoking, stealing, and fighting. Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding. In very cold winters, marine life is washed up on shore, including sea urchins, razor shells, mussels and cockles. Already this morning, before the aquarium doors open, Weinstein has had us pet the smooth teeth of bat rays and handfeed seaweed to urchins. In a healthy kelp forest, red sea urchins feed on the abundant algal drift produced by Macrocystis pyriferia and other laminarians. Let's have the rozzers back on the beat, With a clip round the ear for the urchins they meet. Some believe the trigger's preference for sand dollars and sea urchins may contribute to its uniquely delicious flavor, but more on that later. In the aquarium, children can explore, touch tanks filled with starfish and pencil urchins, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders. Shallow water-dwelling creatures such as giant sea spiders, sea urchins, and corals face new risks as icebergs tear up the ocean floor. Show More Sentences Sea urchins rippled their spines with the imperceptibility of a clock's minute hand. Acorn worms are themselves part of the hemichordates, a group of marine animals closely related to today's sea stars and sea urchins. Non-eye light-sensing structures or compounds also show up in the tube feet of sea urchins and the body walls of fruit fly larvae. Sea urchins use their tube feet, hose-like appendages with suction cups for movement, to sense their environment. It is colonised by marine life, with a dense carpet of plumose anemones, sea urchins and brittle stars. Indeed, I do not confuse patriotic dissenters with the demagogic street urchins. Tags were implanted into the body cavity of the sea urchins through the peristomial membrane. The mouth lies in the centre of the oral surface in regular urchins, or towards one end in irregular urchins. This is entirely absent in sea urchins, which are unable to move in this way. Some families of tropical sea urchins are known to have venomous spines, like Diadematidae and Echinothuriidae. Aristotle's lantern is actually referring to the whole shape of sea urchins, which look like the ancient lamps of Aristotle's time. Despite the names, the small and large intestines of sea urchins are in no way homologous to the similarly named structures in vertebrates. Sea urchins possess both a water vascular system and a hemal system, the latter containing blood. Most sea urchins possess five pairs of external gills, located around their mouths. In most urchins, touch elicits a prompt reaction from the spines, which converge toward the touch point. Sea urchins can also be infected by many parasites, be they internal or external. Sea urchins are some of the favorite foods of sea otters and California sheephead, and are the main source of nutrition for wolf eels. Left unchecked, urchins devastate their environments, creating what biologists call an urchin barren, devoid of macroalgae and associated fauna. Sea urchins have conquered most sea habitats, on an extremely wide range of depths. Importantly, urchins act as the closest living relative to chordates and thus may shed light on the evolution of vertebrates. Show More Sentences 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. Examples of meroplankton include the larvae of sea urchins, starfish, crustaceans, marine worms, and most fish. Among the fossils it contains are sea urchins, belemnites, ammonites and sea reptiles such as Mosasaurus. Sea urchins graze on the lower stems of kelp, causing the kelp to drift away and die. North Pacific areas that do not have sea otters often turn into urchin barrens, with abundant sea urchins and no kelp forest. Sea horses, star fish, sea urchins and sea cucumber are used in traditional Chinese medicine. The young urchins,... not being able to guess at its recondite machinery, were almost tempted to hail the wondrous work as magic. The pericentriolar radial complex characteristic of the spermatozoa of other echinoderms is lacking in the spermatozoa of all sea urchins. Sulfated polysaccharides from the egg jelly layer are species-specific inducers of acrosomal reaction in sperms of sea urchins. So often enough, those urchins are buck-naked and streaming wet. Sea otters, starfish, wolf eels, triggerfish, and other predators hunt and feed on sea urchins. Spatangoids constitute a monophyletic group of heart urchins that appears in the early Cretaceous and ranges to the Recent. Red heart urchins, like other heart urchins, are usually buried under the sand and are only seen on rare occasions. Each of the five decks of the ship offers squirrelfish, rare sponges, Goliath groupers, urchins, and more. Sea urchins are members of the phylum Echinodermata, which also includes sea stars, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, and crinoids. In these urchins, the upper surface of the body is slightly domed, but the underside is flat, while the sides are devoid of tube feet. Sea urchins convert aqueous carbon dioxide using a catalytic process involving nickel into the calcium carbonate portion of the test. Unlike in sea stars and sea urchins, annelids are not typical parasites. The nervous system of sea urchins has a relatively simple layout. How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous? Show More Sentences At first glance, sea urchins often appear incapable of moving. Sea urchins, for example, can reduce entire areas to urchin barrens. This limestone is rich in fossils, particularly of fossilised sea urchins. Sea urchins have no visible eyes, legs, or means of propulsion, but can move freely over hard surfaces using adhesive tube feet, working in conjunction with the spines. Sea otters are hunters of clams, sea urchins and other shelled creatures. Native Americans in California are also known to eat sea urchins. Several sea urchins, however, including the sand dollars, are oval in shape, with distinct front and rear ends, giving them a degree of bilateral symmetry. Sea urchins feed mainly on algae but can feed on sea cucumbers and a wide range of invertebrates, such as mussels, polychaetes, sponges, brittle stars, and crinoids. Barnacles, dog whelks, brittle stars, sculpins and sea urchins. Home to the pretty cuckoo wrasse, the fearsome-looking wolf fish, deeplet sea anemones, light bulb sea squirts, edible sea urchins and bottle brush hydroids. Snorkelers might spy sea urchins, octopuses, sea cucumbers, starfish, moon snails, wavy-top snails, clams, perhaps even sand dollars and pipe fish. 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 urchins are dioecious, having separate male and female sexes, although distinguishing the two is not easy, except for their locations on the sea bottom. Indeed, very small sea urchins are found hiding beneath rocks. Regular sea urchins have five gonads, lying underneath the interambulacral regions of the test, while the irregular forms have only four, with the hindmost gonad being absent. 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. Sea urchins are traditional model organisms in developmental biology. Sea urchins are being used in longevity studies for comparison between the young and old of the species, particularly for their ability to regenerate tissue as needed. Among the dishes on the menu are white asparagus with virgin olive oil capsules and lemon marshmallow and lamb's brains with sea urchins and sea grape. Tube feet can also act as respiratory organs, and are the primary sites of gas exchange in heart urchins and sand dollars, both of which lack gills. Examples from Classical Literature A big black mongrel appeared worrying at one of two petticoated urchins on the ground. The only plant now operating on the coast, Blanc Sablon Seafoods, processes scallops, whelk, lumpfish roe, stimson clams and sea urchins. All the ugly, dingy little urchins that I know have been invited. His use of sea urchins as a model system for human cells is of particular interest. For example, when they kidnapped the resident damselfish, other fish and sea urchins ate up the alga within days. They were deemed such a threat that programs were undertaken to systematically eradicate sea urchins from California coastal waters. A massive head with strong jaws help this nmarine reptile consume horseshoe crabs, crustaceans, sponges and sea urchins. Putin and Mori agreed only to pursue joint economic activities there, including a marine farm for growing sea urchins and scallops. Sea urchins are voracious algae eaters, and their absence caused a definite rise in algae. There is squid to follow, and sea urchins and a seaweed salad. He rose to his feet, flung aside the straw pallet upon the street urchins, and fled. They have not quite the rowdy actuality of Mr. Tarkington's urchins. Creatures range from attached sea squirts, dead man's fingers, sea urchins, tall plumose anemones and burrowing creatures such as peacock worms. I was told that there were still smaller ones, but they had been lost by some little cannibal urchins, the priest's children, who had stolen them to play marbles with. Nearer to the grinder a few more urchins were dancing, but in the case of this lad his hands and feet looked numbed, and he kept biting the end of his sleeve and shivering. Under the proposal, cables would be barred in areas where the ocean bed is thick with coral reef and teeming with lobsters, sponges, starfish, sea urchins and grouper. A Shetland project aims to develop the farming of sea urchins. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of urchins? Words that rhyme with urchins What is the adjective for urchins? What is the noun for urchins? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words urchin urceolate urbe urban sprawl urban's urban renewal Urdu ure urea urease uremia ureotelic 7-letter Words Starting With u ur urc urch urchi urchin