urchin
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When sea urchin populations grow too large, however, especially if their natural predators are heavily hunted or overfished, the balance can flip.
From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2025
Visitors to Puglia, a major producer of durum wheat, can try handmade pastas in a variety of shapes, paired with broccoli rabe, sea urchin and even a horse ragù.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
One of their most important roles is controlling purple sea urchin populations, a species with a notoriously voracious appetite.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025
She made her first film appearance at the age of 12 as an urchin in Alexander Korda's film The Thief of Baghdad in 1940.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025
“But how can a pore urchin dump un on ter noase? When ee ha’nt got nothing to dump with, nor way to hold ’un?
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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