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sand dollar

1. Any of various thin circular echinoderms of the class Echinoidea, especially Echinarachnius parma, of coastal northern Atlantic and Pacific waters, having a covering of short movable spines.

2. The disklike internal skeleton of a sand dollar, having five radially symmetric oblong markings and often a pattern of slotlike holes.

sand dollar

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various flattened disclike echinoderms of the order Clypeasteroida, of shallow North American coastal waters: class Echinoidea (sea urchins)

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sand dollar - flattened disklike sea urchins that live on sandy bottoms

sea urchin - shallow-water echinoderms having soft bodies enclosed in thin spiny globular shells

Exocycloida, order Exocycloida - flat sea urchins

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