a. [f. on the analogy of ACICULATE, as if ad. mod.L. echīnulātus, f. *echīnulus, dim. of ECHINUS.] Having or covered with small prickles.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 157. Calicles small, nearly hemispherical and echinulate.

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1874.  Cooke, Fungi, 29. The spores are in many instances … beautifully echinulate.

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  Hence Echinulately adv., with small prickles. Echinulato-striate a., streaked with rows of small prickles.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 157. Surface finely echinulato-striate. Ibid., 450. The calicles … are striate, though not echinulately so.

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