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echinate

echinate adjective: prickly; bristly.

Adjective

echinate (comparative more echinate, superlative most echinate)

  1. prickly; bristly
    • an echinate pericarp

Noun

echinate (plural echinates)

  1. A bristly grain or pollen

Forms of echinate

Adjective
comparativemore echinate
superlativemost echinate
Noun
pluralechinates

Origin of echinate

From Latin echinātus.

Words formed from echinate

Questions about echinate

What does echinate mean?
Echinate means prickly; bristly.
What part of speech is echinate?
Echinate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near echinate in the dictionary

  1. echinacoside
  2. Echinades
  3. echinasterid
  4. echinasterids
  5. echinasteroside
  6. echinate
  7. echinated
  8. echinates
  9. echincandin
  10. echincandins
  11. echinenone

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