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kina papa

1. (noun) cake urchin, snapper biscuit, Fellaster zelandiae - common in sand near the entrance to harbours from low water to a few meters in depth. A hard limy disc up to 100 mm in diameter, flat on the lower side and slightly convex above covered in short mossy-green spines.

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