Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Echinoidea

Echinoidea , noun, plural

[New Latin See Echinus, and -oid.]

(Zoology) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous shell, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid.