different between echinus vs miliary

English

Etymology

From Latin ech?nus (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (ekhînos).

Noun

echinus (plural echinuses or echini)

1. A sea urchin.
2. (architecture) The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve.
3. (architecture) The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style.
4. (architecture) The egg-and-anchor or egg-and-dart moulding, because often identified with the Roman Doric capital.

Anagrams

• Su-ch'ien

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ekhînos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?k?i?.nus/, [??k?i?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?ki.nus/, [??ki?nus]

Noun

ech?nus m (genitive ech?n?); second declension

1. a sea urchin, especially the edible kind
2. a hedgehog
3. the prickly husk of a chestnut
4. a rinsing bowl, especially of copper
5. (architecture) an ornament under the chapiter of an Ionic or Doric column

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (hedgehog): ?rin?ceus

Derived terms

• ech?n?tus
• ech?nom?trae

Descendants

• Translingual: Echinus
• ? English: echinus
• Spanish: equino

References

• echinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• echinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• echinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• echinus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• echinus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• echinus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• echinus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

From Latin mili?rius, from milium.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?li??i
• Rhymes: -?li???i

Adjective

miliary (comparative more miliary, superlative most miliary)

1. Of or pertaining to millet seeds.
2. (medicine) Having small lesions that are the shape and size of millet seeds.

   a miliary eruption

   a miliary fever

3. Small and numerous.

   the miliary tubercles of Echini

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

miliary (plural miliaries)

1. (zoology) One of the small tubercles of Echinus sea urchins.