as in monkey
an appealingly mischievous person
we could never resist the little urchin's pleas for candy
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After the multi-year marine heatwave hit the North Pacific in late 2013, warmer ocean temperatures that followed not only stressed kelp but also worsened the spread of sea star wasting disease that wiped out sunflower sea stars — one of the purple urchin’s main predators.
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Chaewon Chung
december 11, Sacbee.com, 11 Dec. 2025
With sunflower sea stars suddenly all but gone from their home range, sea urchin numbers exploded, and the hungry urchin hordes descended upon kelp forests.
—JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
As Wilford Brimley, Glenn Close and an urchin in a newsboy’s cap look on and the music begins to swell, Roy Hobbs sends that last pitch screaming into the rightfield lights—which triggers a chain reaction of cinematic explosions.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Yet, it has also been found that some of the harms of urchin population growth can be lessened when sections of ocean are protected.
—Rebecca Vega Thurber, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2025
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Chaewon Chung
december 11, Sacbee.com, 11 Dec. 2025
With sunflower sea stars suddenly all but gone from their home range, sea urchin numbers exploded, and the hungry urchin hordes descended upon kelp forests.
—JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
As Wilford Brimley, Glenn Close and an urchin in a newsboy’s cap look on and the music begins to swell, Roy Hobbs sends that last pitch screaming into the rightfield lights—which triggers a chain reaction of cinematic explosions.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Yet, it has also been found that some of the harms of urchin population growth can be lessened when sections of ocean are protected.
—Rebecca Vega Thurber, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urchin
Noun
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Japanese snow monkeys, formally known as Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata), are native to Japan and are the northernmost-living nonhuman primates in the world.—
Joshua Mellin,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Feb. 2026
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My mother wrapped a coin in paper and threw it out the window for his monkey to pick up.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Other sufferers, however, who submitted entries to the 1983 Migraine Art Competition, depicted their pain in drawings and paintings of nails, needles, axes, ice picks, arrows, bolts, jaws, chisels, shivs, guns, red-hot spears, sledgehammers, devils, and long pins.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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Think of devil’s food in Bundt form!—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Urchin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urchin. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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