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spinella

spinella noun: one of the small hard tooth-like structures that may be present on the gonosaccus.

Noun

spinella (plural spinellae)

  1. One of the small hard tooth-like structures that may be present on the gonosaccus.
  2. A small spine; a prickle.
    • […] 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

Proper noun capitalized: Spinella

Spinella (plural Spinellas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of spinella

Noun
pluralspinellae
Proper noun
pluralSpinellas

Questions about spinella

What does spinella mean?
Spinella means one of the small hard tooth-like structures that may be present on the gonosaccus.
What part of speech is spinella?
Spinella can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of spinella?
The plural of spinella is spinellae.

Words near spinella in the dictionary

  1. spinelessly
  2. spinelessness
  3. spinelet
  4. spinelets
  5. spinelike
  6. spinella
  7. spinellae
  8. Spinellas
  9. spinelle
  10. spinelles
  11. spinellite

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