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echinulate

American  
[ih-kin-yuh-lit, -leyt, ih-kahyn-] / ɪˈkɪn yə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, ɪˈkaɪn- /

adjective

  1. (of a plant or animal) having a covering of prickles or small spines.


Etymology

Origin of echinulate

Apparently echin(us) + -ule + -ate 1

Example Sentences

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P. white, tomentose; g. paler than type; sp. globose, echinulate, tinged red. depluens, Batsch.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The spores are more or less globose, and rough or echinulate, at least in many species.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

The spores are white, globose, echinulate, 3–4 µ.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

The peridium is very thin, tuberculose, effused, delicate, olivaceous-brown; spores olive, echinulate or spiny.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

P. 4-6 cm. whitish, depressed, flesh thick; g. adnate, narrow, pallid; s. 2.5-3 long by 1.25 thick, whitish; milk white then glaucous-green; sp. echinulate, 6-7 �.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George