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urchin

noun as in mischievous youngster

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The robot plucked sea stars and sea urchins and sea snails from the water and dropped them into rock pools along the shore.

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Visitors to Puglia, a major producer of durum wheat, can try handmade pastas in a variety of shapes, paired with broccoli rabe, sea urchin and even a horse ragù.

Sunflower sea stars used to prey on the urchins, keeping them in check.

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One of their most important roles is controlling purple sea urchin populations, a species with a notoriously voracious appetite.

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She made her first film appearance at the age of 12 as an urchin in Alexander Korda's film The Thief of Baghdad in 1940.

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