Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having spinules; minutely spiny.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany and zoology, furnished with spinules or diminutive spines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with small spines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Covered with small
spines .
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Examples
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Other supposed hybrids have been found between the marginal shield and the spinulose fern and its variety _intermèdium_, and with Goldie's fern; also between the crested fern, including Clinton's variety and each of the others mentioned; and, in fact, between almost all pairs of species of the wood ferns, although we do not think they have been positively verified.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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It differs from it, however, by being twice pinnate below, and from the typical spinulose fern by its glandular indusium; but from the intermediate variety it is more difficult to separate it, as that also has indusiate glands.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Pinnules pinnately cleft, the oblong lobes spinulose-toothed at the apex.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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This fern has been thought to be a hybrid between the crested and spinulose ferns, but is now regarded as distinct.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Fronds one to three feet high, oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate, the upper pinnæ lanceolate, the lower triangular with spinulose teeth.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Pinnules variously cut into spinulose-toothed segments.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Pinnæ broadly lanceolate-falcate or the lowest triangular, strongly auricled on the upper side, densely spinulose-toothed.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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The scales of the back are small and unequal; they gradually increase in size as they approach the base of the conical spines, which is surrounded with a ring of larger scales with longer spines; the large spines are conical; rather compressed, spinulose below, smooth and acute at the tip, and are usually furnished with a sharp-toothed ridge on the front edge, and sometimes on both.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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K. foliis impariter 2-conjugatis: laminis spinulose serratis, adultis glabris» mediaovati.
Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium Richard Anthony Salisbury 1796
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