echinate

[ ih-kahy-neyt, -nit, ek-uh-neyt, -nit ]

adjective

1. bristly; prickly.

echinate

/ ˈɛkɪˌneɪt /

adjective

1. biology covered with spines, bristles, or bristle-like outgrowths

Word History and Origins

Origin of echinate¹

From the Latin word echīnātus, dating back to 1660–70. See echinus, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Echinate, -d, ek′in-āt, -ed, adj. prickly like a hedgehog: set with prickles or bristles.—ns.

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Echinate: Beset with pointed prominences.

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The spikelets are arranged in groups of two, facing each other and appearing like a single spikelet with two equal echinate glumes, sessile, or obscurely pedicelled on very short, tumid, pubescent branches.

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

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Trachys.Spikelets binate and all round the rachis, 3-glumed, glumes echinate 14.

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