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echinulate

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From Latin echinulus (“little hedgehog”).

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echinulate (comparative more echinulate, superlative most echinulate)

  1. (biology) Having small spines or similar projections
    • 1970, Lewis Herrick Flint, Freshwater Red Algae of North America‎[1], page 76:
      An interesting feature of the plant was the occasional incidence of radiate, mostly unbranched bracts in the cystocarp, giving it an echinulate appearance.

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