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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...
- 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...
- to its small size. The dermal spinules may or may not be present on species of the genus Histiophryne. If the spinules are present, they are very small...
- These teeth are depressible. Some species have a scattering of epidermal spinules on the body, and the scales (when present) are conical, hollow, and translucent...
- 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.[jargon] The illicium...
- distinguished by its characteristic sorediate pseudocyp****ae and also by having spinules that grow over soralia. Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff...
- quadrati; separate spinalis and semispinalis portion in the epaxial trunk; spinules or spines covering the hemipenial body. Traditionally, the name "Colubroidea"...
- off Bermuda. The larvae and juveniles are covered in small, projecting spinules. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chiasmodon niger. Carpenter, K...
- genus Gonatodes from South America. Simple elaborations of the epidermal spinules into setae have enabled Gonatodes humeralis to climb smooth surfaces and...