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▪ I. echinate, a.|ˈɛkɪneɪt|
[ad. L. echinātus, f. echīnus hedgehog.]
1. Bot. ‘Furnished with numerous rigid hairs, or straight prickles; as the fruit of Castanea vesca’ (Treas. Bot.).
1668Wilkins Real Char. 116 Whose outward husk is Echinate and prickly. 1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 344 Each grain is echinate.
2. Zool. Resembling an echinus or sea-urchin.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 230 The spiniform teeth which give the echinate character to this species.
Hence echinato-ˈdentate, a. Zool., having toothlike prickles or spines.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 173 Exterior..echinato-dentate.
▪ II. echinate, v.|ˈɛkɪneɪt|
[f. prec.]
a. intr. To set up one's prickles like a hedgehog; in quot. fig. nonce-use.
1788J. Williams (A. Pasquin) Childr. Thespis (1792) 243 When merit exhibits his guinea gorged purse, They'll echinate, redden and tacitly curse.
b. trans. Of a sponge spicule: to project from (the fibre) at an acute angle. So ˈechinating ppl. a.
1882Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 328 The skeleton is..composed of chief spicules lying parallel to form a fibre, which is spined by other (echinating) spicules projecting from it. 1900E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. II. 140 The spicules so placed are said to ‘echinate’ the fibre. 1940L. H. Hyman Invertebrates I. vi. 347 Spongin fibers may have both enclosed (‘coring’) and echinating spicules. |