spinulose, a. Zool. and Bot.
(spaɪnjʊˈləʊs)
[ad. mod.L. spīnulōs-us, f. spīnula spinule.]
1. Furnished or covered with spinules.
| a. Zool. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 221 Tibiæ spinulose. 1859 Dana Crust. ii. 871 This part..excavate and minutely spinulose. 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vi. 278 Twenty-six spinulose thoracico-abdominal segments. |
| b. Bot. 1829 Loudon Encycl. Plants 505 Stems and spinulose calyxes covered with wool. 1847 W. E. Steele Field Bot. 14 Bracts spinulose at base with a long, terminal, slender spine. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 183 Teasel..; hairy or spinulose herbs with angular stems. |
2. Having the form of spinules.
| 1848 Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. 288 The spinulose serratures begin..about the middle of the leaf. 1859 T. Moore Brit. Ferns 46 Broad rounded segments..notched into a varying number of pointed but not spinulose teeth. |
| Comb. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 466 Lobes oblong spinulose-toothed. |
Hence
spinuˈlosely adv.| 1857 T. Moore Handbk. Brit. Ferns (ed. 3) 123 Upper pinnules inciso-lobate with spinulosely serrate lobes. |