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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

具小刺的

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jù xiǎo cì de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Echinulate/ɪˈkɪn.jʊ.leɪt/
adjectiveCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #85000 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这种真菌的孢子具有小刺。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Having a surface covered with small prickles, spines, or stinging hairs.

    "The spores of the newly discovered mushroom species were distinctly echinulate under the microscope."
  2. 2

    In bacteriology, having a growth along the line of inoculation with a toothed or pointed margin.

    "The bacterial culture exhibited an echinulate growth pattern on the agar slant."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin word 'echinatus', meaning prickly or spiny, which comes from 'echinus' (sea urchin), originating from the ancient Greek 'echinos'. It entered scientific English in the 19th century as a precise descriptive term used primarily in botany and mycology to denote surfaces covered with small prickles.

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