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Definition of Spinose
1. Adjective. Having spines.
Definition of Spinose
1. a. Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.
Definition of Spinose
1. Adjective. Having spines ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spinose
1. spiny [adj] - See also: spiny
Medical Definition of Spinose
1. Bearing spines. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinose
Literary usage of Spinose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1851)
"... and their adjoining spinose faces and edges, seem excellently adapted to force,
by their united action, any minute living creature down the passage. ..."
2. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"... spinose, a moderate tuft at middle ; upper pair of dorsal head-hairs in fives,
lower in threes, ante-antennal tuft multiple. ..."
3. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"... lobes rarely somewhat truncate and entire, usually bifid and more or less
ciliate-dentate or spinose. Calyptra free, thin, shorter than the perianth. ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"slender persistent style, spinose or tuberculate at base. Embryo with 1-celled,
with a single ovule. ..."
5. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society by Brooklyn Entomological Society (1885)
"or spinose, tibiae slender, hind tarsi with 1st joint scarcely as long as two
following. Length I, 20 inch. = 30 mm. Hab. Valley of Rio Grande. ..."
6. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"Heads discoid, homogamous ; involucre subglobose, of many rows of spinose-pointed,
imbricated scales ; receptacle bristly ; style scarcely divided ; pappus ..."
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