Echinate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Bearing or covered with spines or bristles; prickly.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. prickly; bristly
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Spiny, like a hedgehog; bristling with sharp points; bristly.
  • 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.
    • Word Usage
    "Spikelets fascicled unilaterally on a broad rachis, 4-glumed, glumes not echinate 13."
    Equivalent
    echinated   
     
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