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echinate
[ ih-kahy-neyt, -nit, ek-uh-neyt, -nit ]
adjective
- bristly; prickly.
echinate
/ ˈɛ°ìɪˌ²Ô±ðɪ³Ù /
adjective
- biology covered with spines, bristles, or bristle-like outgrowths
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Echinate, -d, ek′in-Ät, -ed, adj. prickly like a hedgehog: set with prickles or bristles.—ns.
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Echinate: Beset with pointed prominences.
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The spikelets are arranged in groups of two, facing each other and appearing like a single spikelet with two equal echinate glumes, sessile, or obscurely pedicelled on very short, tumid, pubescent branches.
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Spikelets fascicled unilaterally on a broad rachis, 4-glumed, glumes not echinate 13.
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Trachys.Spikelets binate and all round the rachis, 3-glumed, glumes echinate 14.
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