dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/urc_MW.json

{
  "Urceolina":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small genus of South American herbs (family Amaryllidaceae) that are often cultivated as ornamentals and that have usually yellow and green urceolate flowers and broad leaves produced from a bulb":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin urceolus little pitcher + New Latin -ina ; from the shape of the flowers":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-l\u0113n\u0259",
      "\u02cc\u0259r(\u02cc)s\u0113\u0259\u02c8l\u012bn\u0259"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075343",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "urceole":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin urceolus little pitcher, diminutive of urceus jar, pitcher":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u0259rs\u0113\u02cc\u014dl"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135846",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "urceolus":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an urn-shaped organ or part of a plant":[],
      ": the external tube of some rotifers":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin, little pitcher":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cc\u0259r\u02c8s\u0113\u0259l\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205123",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "urceus":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an ancient Roman jug or pitcher with one handle":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u0259rs\u0113\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192817",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "urchin":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mischievous and often poor and raggedly clothed youngster":[
        "street urchins"
      ],
      ": hedgehog sense 1a":[],
      ": sea urchin":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "we could never resist the little urchin's pleas for candy",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Laughing, always laughing\u2014at the dickey birds hopping in the tree branches, at the urchin who was burned to a crisp by an angry mob, at the slandering neighbor woman who got turned into a neighing donkey. \u2014 Okwiri Oduor, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
      "Red sea urchin is a mainstay at high-end sushi restaurants and raw bars \u2014 a symbol of the state\u2019s coastal bounty. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "As the living tissue wastes away, the dying urchin usually comes detached from where it was anchored in place, O'Neil said. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Cabrera was an unlikely champion to begin with, a street urchin who grew up without parents and never had a formal education. \u2014 Tim Dahlberg, ajc , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "The urchin , part of the genus Astopyga, is pictured showing off its anal bulb, which is used to dispel waste from its body inside of a sac, per Live Science. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "Anyone who falls into that category probably knows the purple urchin too: as a ravenous source of dramatic kelp-forest devastation. \u2014 Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "One of his weirdest quirks is his habit of pretending to be a Victorian urchin on the run from the orphanage. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times , 18 Nov. 2021",
      "After the purple urchin \u2019s main predator, the sunflower sea star, died off from a wasting disease, the urchins ate up the kelp that remained. \u2014 Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English yrchoun, urcheoun, hirichoun \"hedgehog, sea urchin,\" borrowed from Anglo-French heri\u00e7on, hir\u00e7un, irechon, going back to Vulgar Latin *\u0113r\u012bci\u014dn-, *\u0113r\u012bci\u014d, derivative (with the Latin suffix -\u014dn-, -\u014d, usually of persons) of Latin \u0113r\u012bcius \"hedgehog, kind of military obstacle,\" from *\u0113r \"hedgehog\" + -\u012bcius (or -icius ), adjective suffix; *\u0113r, if earlier *h\u0113r, probably going back to a root noun from the Indo-European verbal base *\u01f5 h er-s- \"bristle, become stiff,\" whence also Greek ch\u1e17r \"hedgehog\" (attested only by the grammarian Hesychius) \u2014 more at horror entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u0259r-ch\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "devil",
      "hellion",
      "imp",
      "mischief",
      "monkey",
      "rapscallion",
      "rascal",
      "rogue",
      "scamp"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032153",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "urchin fish":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": porcupine fish":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005736",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "urchiness":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a female urchin (see urchin sense 3 )":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u0259\u0307n\u0259\u0307s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225827",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "urchinly":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, having the character of, or being an urchin":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u0259\u0307nl\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211344",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  }
}