Usually means: Curved molding under ancient capitals.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word echinus:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. echinus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Echinus, echinus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. echinus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. echinus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. echinus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Echinus, echinus: Wordnik
  7. echinus: Wiktionary
  8. echinus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. echinus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Echinus, echinus: Dictionary.com
  11. Echinus (Acarnania), Echinus (Phthiotis), Echinus (Thessaly), Echinus (molding), Echinus (sea urchin), Echinus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Echinus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. echinus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. echinus: Rhymezone
  15. Echinus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. echinus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. echinus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. echinus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. echinus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. echinus: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. echinus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See echini as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (echinus)

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

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