Bot. and Zool. [See next and -ENCE. So F. spinescence.] Spinescent character, condition or formation.
1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Spinescentia,… spinescence.
1894. Nat. Sci., Oct., 263. It is not altogether strange to find spinescent processes away from deserts; but I do maintain that spinescence is an important element in the facies of hot and arid deserts in a barren soil.
1908. Smithsonian Misc. Coll., v. 104. The diferences are mainly in the spinescence or smoothness of the skin.
