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Definition of Echinate
1. a. Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.
Definition of Echinate
1. spiny [adj] - See also: spiny
Medical Definition of Echinate
1. Bearing stiff, stout, prickly hairs. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Echinate
Literary usage of Echinate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"... and echinate-bristly fr.; from H. incana L. in the sessile fr., &c.; and from
all the preceding in the decidedly ann. not per. woody root and rootstock. ..."
2. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1848)
"... but the flower, at maturity, is covered with a very short, dense, echinate,
rigid pubescence, with which, indeed, the whole plant, under the lens, ..."
3. Pollen by Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1879)
"31). Many are globular ; some simple, as in Canna (No. 46), Costus, Musa (No.
45), Strelitzia; some smooth, some echinate, as in Crocus* (No. ..."
4. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1870)
"The dominant form of spicula in this genus is coarse echinate ... In addition,
more evenly tuberculate and echinate spicula of smaller size are abundantly ..."
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