as in monkey
an appealingly mischievous person
we could never resist the little urchin's pleas for candy
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Recent Examples of urchin
Yet, it has also been found that some of the harms of urchin population growth can be lessened when sections of ocean are protected.
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Rebecca Vega Thurber, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2025
Without its keystone predators, the balance of the coastal ecosystem can shift to damage control: urchins strip kelp forests, waves hit harder, and the quiet rhythm of life shifts.
—New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2025
Along some parts of the California coast, from Marin to Mendocino, scientists have been replanting kelp and working to remove overgrown urchin populations to help restore kelp forests that were depleted when sea star populations crashed.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
Revel in serenity while slowly kayaking through exotic mangrove forests and spot starfish, coral, Queen conch, and urchins in Key West.
—AFAR Media, 31 July 2025
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On Monday, the Prairie Village City Council voted to adopt a conditional license for Oakley Reign — a spider monkey that’s recently been ushered into the spotlight as the northeast Johnson County city considered changing its definition of dangerous wild animals to include all monkeys.—
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Spot striking tropical flowers, colorful birds, and perhaps even a monkey in the forest canopy around the cascades.—
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Nobody wants to deal with our old devil, even if the new one comes with an encroaching open threat actively bubbling in the Caribbean and Latin America at large.—
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But Bourdain, with his devil-be-damned demeanor, somehow makes the dish feel approachable — even though the two chefs’ recipes are pretty similar.—
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“Urchin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urchin. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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