echinulate

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adjective

Having small spines or similar projections

OriginLatin echinulus →
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Meanings

adjectiveechinulate (comparative more echinulate, superlative most echinulate)

comparative more echinulate · superlative most echinulate

  1. biologyHaving small spines or similar projections

    An interesting feature of the plant was the occasional incidence of radiate, mostly unbranched bracts in the cystocarp, giving it an echinulate appearance.

    1970, Lewis Herrick Flint, Freshwater Red Algae of North America, page 76

Origin

  1. Latinechinulus“little hedgehog”
  2. Englishechinulate

From Latin echinulus (“little hedgehog”).

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Anagrams

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APA

echinulate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/echinulate

MLA

“echinulate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/echinulate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “echinulate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/echinulate.

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