echinated

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adjective

echinate; prickly

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveechinated (not comparable)
  1. not comparableechinate; prickly

    The amalthea cut transversely; calyx five-toothed, echinated; seeds three, ovate, not fleshy, slightly compressed, pointed at top, blunt at bottom.

    1821, Samuel Frederick Gray, A natural arrangement of British plants, page 264
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