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echinated

echinated adjective: echinate; prickly.

Adjective

echinated (not comparable)

  1. echinate; prickly
    • The amalthea cut transversely; calyx five-toothed, echinated; seeds three, ovate, not fleshy, slightly compressed, pointed at top, blunt at bottom.1821, Samuel Frederick Gray, A natural arrangement of British plants, page 264

Questions about echinated

What does echinated mean?
Echinated means echinate; prickly.
What part of speech is echinated?
Echinated is an adjective.

Words near echinated in the dictionary

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

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