Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Bearing or covered with spines or bristles; prickly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Spiny, like a hedgehog; bristling with sharp points; bristly. An echinate surface is one thickly covered with sharp elevations like spines bristling, and is to be distinguished from a muricate surface, in which the elevations are scattered, lower, and not so acute.
- To project at an acute angle to the axis of (a fiber), giving it a feathery or plumed appearance: said of the spicules in the axinellid type of sponge skeleton.
- To project at an acute angle to the axis of a fiber: said of the spicules in a sponge skeleton.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled.
Etymologies
- Latin echinatus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Spikelets fascicled unilaterally on a broad rachis, 4-glumed, glumes not echinate 13.”
“Spikelets binate and all round the rachis, 3-glumed, glumes echinate 14.”
“The _spikelets_ are arranged in groups of two, facing each other and appearing like a single spikelet with two equal echinate glumes, sessile, or obscurely pedicelled on very short, tumid, pubescent branches.”
“Filiform; b, beaded; c, echinate; d, villous; e, arborescent.] (B) _Line of Puncture.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘echinate’.
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phrontistery - e
from phrontistery.info
ecclesiarchy, ecclesiastry, ecdemomania, echinuliform, echoism, echolalia, echopraxia, eclaircise, ?claircissement, eclat, ?clat, eclegme and 616 more...
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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Naturals
dogtooth violet, adder's-tongue, ribbon fern, breadberry, echinate, stamen, aeolian, boreas, chinook, Eurus, firmament, edentata and 35 more...
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Body bio- baby!
hemorrhage, prognosis, blowsabella, somatotype, ectomorphic, endomorphic, mesomorphic, labia minora, labia majora, entopic, ectopic, ectopic pregnancy and 65 more...
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
roseate, acaudate, lyrate, pinnate, acerate, falcate, pedunculate, petiolate, oblate, tessellate, spatulate, fimbriate and 158 more...
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kawy's list
subtrist, tricoteuse, undisonant, apricity, apricity, nudiustertian, snaste, chrestomath, chrestomath, velleity, zugzwang, muntin and 106 more...
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Shaped Like Itself
falcate, pectinate, echinate, ctenoid, xyloid, onomastic, flocculate, hyetal, trochal, irenic, skeuomorph, erose and 2 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Bristle-bearing
Words meaning bristle-bearing
setiferous, chaetophorous, setose, hispid, echinate, aristate, setigerous, setulose, setulous, hispidulous
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super-kawy Bearing or covered with spines or bristles; prickly. Sep 23, 2009