spinose
/spahy-nohs, spahy-nohs/US // ˈspaɪ noʊs, spaɪˈnoʊs //UK // (ˈspaɪnəʊs, spaɪˈnəʊs) //
菠菜,菠萝糖,菠糖,菠菜式
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : full of spines; spiniferous; spinous.
Examples
Mouth: labrum with four or six minute teeth: mandibles with five graduated teeth; inferior point more or less spinose.
The leaves are large with fine spinose margins, and the flower is most conspicuous, as it is four or five inches long.
The cerci appear to have been long, slender, very spinose organs much like the antennules, but stiff rather than flexible.
A similar explanation is suggested for Acidaspis and other highly spinose species.
Its pleural lobes are reduced to a series of spines on either side of the body, and its pygidium is a mere spinose vestige.
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