Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having small prickles; minutely prickly or spiny.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot. & Zoöl.) Set with small spines or prickles.
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- adjective biology Having small
spines or similarprojections
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Examples
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The = spores = are yellowish in mass, faintly yellow under the microscope, strongly echinulate or tuberculate, globose, 6 -- 10 µ.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The = spores = are black in mass (with a suggestion of a purple tinge), oval to broadly elliptical, inequilateral, pointed at each end, echinulate, or minutely tuberculate, 8 -- 11 × 6 -- 8 µ.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The = spores = are yellowish in mass, faintly so under the microscope, globose, strongly echinulate, 6 -- 10 µ.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The = spores = are white, globose, echinulate, 3 -- 4 µ.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
fbharjo commented on the word echinulate
prickly
May 12, 2008