📖 Definitions of "Muricate"
adjective
- 1
Covered with short rough points or studs
- 2
Covered with crystals
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Muricate"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| tomentosenoun | (biology, of a surface) covered in (often matted) hair. |
| manicate | (botany) Covered with hairs or pubescence so interwoven as to form a mass easily removed. |
| cuticulate | Having a cuticle |
| barbellate | (botany) Having a covering of fine barbs, quills, spines or thorns. |
| marginatenoun | To provide with margins. |
| merulioid | (mycology) wrinkled with low, uneven ridges. |
| chaetophorous | Having bristles. |
| ramotuberculate | (zoology, of dinosaurian eggshell ornamentations (textures)) Having irregular chains of nodes, typically found as a transition between the lineartuberculate midsection and dispersituberculate ends of elongated eggs. |
| glochidiate | (botany) Having barbs |
| strigosenoun | (botany) Having stiff hairs, pressed together. |
| glomuliferous | (biology) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. |
| jaculiferous | (rare) prickly; bearing spines |
| compactituberculate | (zoology, of dinosaurian eggshell ornamentations (textures)) Having dome-shaped tops of the shell units which form a dense covering of nodes on the surface of the eggshell. |
| spiculated | Having spicules or small spikes. |
| sagenotuberculate | (zoology, of dinosaurian eggshell ornamentations (textures)) Having nodes and ridges that form a netlike pattern interspersed with pits and grooves. |
| acanthomatous | characterized by spikes or thorns |
| mucronulate | Having, or tipped with, a small point or points. |
| echinulate | (biology) Having small spines or similar projections |
| urticoid | (mycology) (Especially of a cystidium) shaped like a stinging-nettle hair (with a long straight pointed section and a swollen base). |
| anastomotuberculate | (zoology, of dinosaurian eggshell ornamentations (textures)) Having ridges similar to lineartuberculate eggshells, but instead form wavy, branching, or anastomosing patterns resembling the water ripple marks in sand |
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