echinate

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Spikelets fascicled unilaterally on a broad rachis, 4-glumed, glumes not echinate 13.

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  1. adjective Bearing or covered with spines or bristles; prickly.

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  1. from Latin echinatus, set with prickles, prickly, from echinus, a hedgehog: see echinus.
  2. Greek ἐχῖνος, hedgehog, + -ate.
 

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/ˈɛkɪneɪt/
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