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echino-

1. a combining form meaning “prickly; spiny,” used in the formation of compound words: echinulate.
2. a combining form representing echinoderm in compound words: echinoid.
Also called echin-.
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echin-  
pref.  Variant of echino-.
echino- or echin-  
pref.  
  1. Spiny; prickly: echinate.

  2. Echinoderm: echinoid.


[From Latin echīnus, sea urchin; see echinus.]
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Medical Dictionary

echino- or echin-
pref.
Spiny: echinococcosis.

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