heart urchin in English
noun
1
a heart-shaped burrowing sea urchin that has a thick covering of fine spines on the shell, giving it a furry appearance.
The sandy patches yield burrowing starfish, rare delicate tube anemones, heart urchins , peacock flounders, and many species of nudibranch and sea hare.
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1. Micraster is sometimes called the heart urchin, because of its distinctive shape.
2. The 3D model was imported into finite element software and the stiffness was calculated for different parts of the heart urchin shell.