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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. 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.