Aristotle's lantern

Aristotle's lantern
a complex arrangement of muscles and calcareous teeth and plates forming an eversible organ in most echinoids, functioning in mastication.
[so called from a reference by Aristotle to a sea urchin resembling in shape certain lanterns]

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