urchin
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I asked my son to give me a quote for this column, but I couldn’t find him, because that urchin was off fishing with an urchin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
This summer, the urchin bait has been FishTok’s breakout star.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Usually nothing lives inside a blue hole, but cameras dropped inside the new discovery show small sponges, a species of urchin called large spatangoid, and diverse fish species.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
Ora King salmon crudo was dressed in passionfruit aguachile with Tabasco oil, while a uni carbonara used creamy sea urchin in place of guanciale, finished with smoked trout roe.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
Aggo gave an urchin a copper for a skewer of honey- roasted mice and nibbled them as he rode.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Intrigued, American anglers started dabbling with urchins, and having success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Fish, mobile snails, sea urchins, and bivalves such as clams, oysters, and mussels all require faster metabolisms to support movement and, in many cases, predatory lifestyles.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
"In the supermarket, you find luxury products, sea urchins or Dom Perignon champagne, and vegetables have become extremely expensive," pushing some people to do their shopping in a neighbouring town.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Crinoids are part of the phylum Echinodermata which also boasts sea urchins and sea cucumbers.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
All she did with that knowledge was to give herself airs and lord it over the other urchins.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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