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What is the noun for urchins?

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urchin
  1. A mischievous child.
  2. A street kid, a child from a poor neighborhood.
  3. (archaic) A hedgehog.
  4. A sea urchin.
  5. A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
  6. One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
  7. (historical) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Life as a street urchin had acutely sharpened Alisha's senses.”
      “The urchin got up a second time with the murderous expression of a dog scenting blood.”
      “Scattered on the cloth are pinecones and seashells, a sand dollar, a starfish, a sea urchin.”
urchins
  1. plural of urchin
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Stories abound of coal wagons stripped of half their load by street urchins before a first delivery could be made.”
      “The elimination of sea otters for their pelts allowed explosions of sea urchins that ate all the kelps.”
      “Otters mostly feed on invertebrates such as urchins, squid, octopus, crabs, abalone and other mollusks.”
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