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Definition of Spinules

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

Meaning of Spinules from wikipedia

- of spinules, and their shape, can differentiate species and is used to describe and distinguish anatomical features. The development of spinules in the...
- Sea. Frogfishes are small, short and stocky, and sometimes covered in spinules and other appendages to aid in camouflage. The camouflage aids in protection...
- 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...
- genus Gonatodes from South America. Simple elaborations of the epidermal spinules into setae have enabled Gonatodes humeralis to climb smooth surfaces and...
- scales and the body has a dense covering of bifurcate spinules, the length of the spines on each spinule is three to four times distance between the points...
- obvious; its pores are largely obscured by the scales' well-developed spinules or ctenii. Slimeheads range from a bright brick red with identically shaded...
- brick-red, tubular, 5-lobed. Flowers May–August. Fruit of 4 nutlets with rigid spinules. In Pinus nigra ssp. pallasiana and Juniperus foetidissima forests on serpentine...
- and present only in females. Some species have a scattering of epidermal spinules on the body, and the scales (when present) are conical, hollow, and translucent...
- 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...
- preoperculum or operculum. Any scales are usually ctenoid although the spinules may be reduced or absent. They have between 1 and 3 lateral lines. They...