echinite
(ˈɛkɪnaɪt)
[ad. mod.L. echinita; see echinus and -ite.]
A fossil echinoderm; a fossil sea-urchin. Hence echiˈnital a., pertaining to or resembling echinites.
| [1695 Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iv. (1723) 203 The Bodyes which are call'd, by Naturalists, Echinitæ.] 1750 G. Hughes Barbadoes ii. 55, I have likewise a middle-sized petrified Echinite. 1851 Richardson Geol. 24 The echinites. |