Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Spatangoidea

Spatangoidea , noun, plural

[New Latin See Spatangus, and -oid.]

(Zoology) An order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart-shaped shell with four or five petal-like ambulacra above. The mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side.