Definition of Spinule. Meaning of Spinule. Synonyms of Spinule

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Definition of Spinule

Spinule
Spinule Spin"ule, n. [L. spinula, dim. of spina a spine: cf. F. spinule.] A minute spine. --Dana.

Meaning of Spinule from wikipedia

- Spinules are small spines or thorns (vertebral columns) that are part of biological and manmade structures. The word originates from the Latin word spinula...
- Sea. Frogfishes are small, short and stocky, and sometimes covered in spinules and other appendages to aid in camouflage. The camouflage aids in protection...
- allusion to the feel of the carapace, especially where the scales have a spinule at their centre. Ostracion trachys has 9 soft rays in both the dorsal and...
- genus Gonatodes from South America. Simple elaborations of the epidermal spinules into setae have enabled Gonatodes humeralis to climb smooth surfaces and...
- distinguished by its characteristic sorediate pseudocyp****ae and also by having spinules that grow over soralia. Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff...
- at least one well developed spine. They have smooth, naked skin with no spinules in the skin and the teeth are very varied between genera. The illicium...
- between the frontal bones on the snout and the skin has a dense covering of spinules. There are two or three caruncles, the warty glands formed from the front...
- relatively smooth texture. The bucklers are concealed by a layer of fine spinules. When compared to the O. porrectus, the red-lipped batfish has a shorter...
- adherent. The lateral line is uninterrupted, with 28 to 32 scales whose spinules or 'ctenii' largely obscure the lateral line's pores. The eyes are large...
- geminata larvae, but they can be distinguished by the integument with spinules on top of the dorsal portion of the posterior somites. The body hairs measure...