echinulate
English
Etymology
From Latin echinulus (“little hedgehog”)
Adjective
echinulate (comparative more echinulate, superlative most echinulate)
- (biology) Having small spines or similar projections
- 1970, Lewis Herrick Flint, Freshwater Red Algae of North America, page 76:
- An interesting feature of the plant was the occasional incidence of radiate, mostly unbranched bracts in the cystocarp, giving it an echinulate appearance.
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