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spinellae

spinellae is the plural of spinella.

Meaning of spinella

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

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Questions about spinellae

What is spinellae the plural of?
Spinellae is the plural of spinella.

Words near spinellae in the dictionary

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

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