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echinulate

echinulate adjective: having small spines or similar projections.

Adjective

echinulate (comparative more echinulate, superlative most echinulate)

  1. Having small spines or similar projections
    • An interesting feature of the plant was the occasional incidence of radiate, mostly unbranched bracts in the cystocarp, giving it an echinulate appearance.1970, Lewis Herrick Flint, Freshwater Red Algae of North America, page 76

Forms of echinulate

comparativemore echinulate
superlativemost echinulate

Origin of echinulate

From Latin echinulus (“little hedgehog”).

Questions about echinulate

What does echinulate mean?
Echinulate means having small spines or similar projections.
What part of speech is echinulate?
Echinulate is an adjective.

Words near echinulate in the dictionary

  1. echinothurioid
  2. echinothurioids
  3. echinozoa
  4. echinozoan
  5. echinozoans
  6. echinulate
  7. echinulated
  8. echinulation
  9. echinulations
  10. echinuliform
  11. echinulin

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