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muricate

muricate adjective: covered with short rough points or studs.

Adjective

muricate

  1. covered with short rough points or studs
    • […] the small areola at base scarcely forked, closely muricate with silvery-gray spinellae on a brown background.1912, John Merle Coulter, M. S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Botanical Gazette, volume 54, page 145
  2. covered with crystals

Forms of muricate

alternative formmuricated

Origin of muricate

First attested in 1661; borrowed from Latin mūricātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from mūrex (“a pointed rock or stone”).

Words formed from muricate

Questions about muricate

What does muricate mean?
Muricate means covered with short rough points or studs.
What part of speech is muricate?
Muricate is an adjective.

Words near muricate in the dictionary

  1. Murica
  2. muricacean
  3. muricaceans
  4. Murican
  5. Muricans
  6. muricate
  7. muricated
  8. muricately
  9. Muricay
  10. murices
  11. muricholic

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