Meaning & use
Sand Dollar
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A flat, round, burrowing sea urchin with a hard, disk-shaped skeleton often found washed up on beaches.
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She found a bleached white sand dollar half-buried in the sand.
Living sand dollars are covered in tiny spines and burrow just beneath the sea floor.
A note on using this word
The pale, coin-shaped skeleton left behind after death gives the sand dollar its name, resembling an old silver coin.
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