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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...
- pyriform carapace whose dorsal surface is heavily po****ted with small spinules inbetween major, conical spines; at the longest in one of its female paratypes...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- frogfishes by the reduced number of spinules in the skin, the skin has only a partial covering of bifurcate dermal spinules, so few that the body has the appearance...
- 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 1and 3 lateral lines. They...