Definition of Spinulae

1. spinula [n] - See also: spinula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinulae

spinstership
spinstress
spinstresses
spinstry
spintext
spintexts
spintharicon
spinthariscope
spinthariscopes
spinto
spintos
spintronic
spintronics
spinula
spinulae (current term)
spinule
spinules
spinulose
spinward
spinworthy
spiny-finned fish
spiny-headed worm
spiny anteater
spiny anteaters
spiny dogfish
spiny lizard
spiny lobster

Literary usage of Spinulae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1839)
"I found several spinulae swimming there in twenty-four hours. Nothing else could be found. However a number of oval yellow or reddish corpuscules next ..."

2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1839)
"I found several spinulae swimming there in twenty-four hours. Nothing else could be found. However a number of oval yellow or reddish ..."

3. The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the by John Ray, Edwin Lankester (1848)
"He says all those that have quadrangular seeds have four spinulae, which in many plants fall all off, in others only two remain. London, June 11, 1702. ..."

4. The Journal of Botany: Being a Second Series of the Botanical Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1834)
"Pappus with erect spinulae. Tube of the floret permanent, swelled at the base, ... Seed-down irregular in length, rough with erect spinulae, not feathery. ..."

5. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1916)
"... microscopic, chitinous spinulae, from this process to the base of the cercus the free margin is straight, weakly oblique, heavily supplied with larger, ..."

6. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1902)
"from India has 5 long and 5 short spinulae, but this and other Eastern species ... in having the spinulae less compact than Hemaris ; the 3 s also have the ..."

7. Structure and polarity of the electric motor nerve-cell in torpedoes by Ulric Dahlgren (1915)
"The merus of the third maxilliped carries 2 large spines internally and one, rather shorter, externally followed by small spinulae. ..."

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