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noun
A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, found on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Latin fasciola (“a little bandage”). See fascia.
