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In portuguese, it is still the same:
Sea urchin = ouriço do mar
Hedgehog = ouriço cacheiro
Porcupine is porco-espinho; literally, thorn pig.
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French
Sea urchin: oursin ("small bear" kinda)
Porcupine: Porc-épic (epic pork!) which sounds like porc et pics (pork and spikes)
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French is rich with playful words.
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Hérisson kinda sounds like oursin, I wonder if it evolved from it. (The word not the animal)
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Oh right, the image was talking about hedgehogs and not porcupines so the hérisson (probably from hérissé?) and not the porc-épic!
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Yeah :)
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In Latvian it's just
Hedgehog = Ezis
Sea urchin = Jūras ezis (Literally sea hedgehog)
Same almost for the porcupine tho, it is called dzeloņcūka, which basically translates to barbed pig.
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Same in Hungarian
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Same in Dutch: zeeëgel.
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Same in German: Seeigel
And porcupine is Stachelschwein, literally "thorn pig"
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Same in Finnish: Merisiili (meri = sea, siili = hedgehog)
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