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urchin

noun as in mischievous youngster

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One of their most important roles is controlling purple sea urchin populations, a species with a notoriously voracious appetite.

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

Massara, an Italian restaurant in New York City, even serves a cold pasta: a chilled spaghetti with red prawn and briny, decadent sea urchin.

From Salon

The tribalistic Bay Boys deserve sea urchin spikes jammed into their toes.

The carnivorous sea stars munch on purple urchins and might even ward them off by making them fearful using chemical cues.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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