sand dollar
Noun
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Noun
sand dollar (plural sand dollars)
- Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida, having a flat, disk-shaped body with the mouth in a mid-ventral position, and living in sand, on or near the surface.
- 2001, Jennifer Hahn, Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage, 2009, page 135 ↗,
- If you look carefully, a sand dollar is merely a sea urchin in flattened form.
- 2001, Jennifer Hahn, Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage, 2009, page 135 ↗,
- (any species of Clypeasteroida) clypeasteroid
- Italian: riccio, riccio di mare
- Portuguese: bolacha-da-praia
- Spanish: dólar de arena
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