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muricate, a. Bot. and Zool.|ˈmjʊərɪkət|
[ad. L. mūricāt-us shaped like the murex, f. mūric- murex.]
Furnished with sharp points, studded with short hard excrescences. † Also (rarely) terminating in a long sharp point, like the murex.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., The turbines, are great..angulous, muricate, or pentedactyls. 1777Robson Brit. Flora 35 Of the pericarpy. Muricate, covered with sharp points, as in Xanthium. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 162 Anthriscus vulgaris... Fruit..ovoid, muricate.
Hence ˈmuricately adv., in muricately-hispid (see quot.). Also muricato-hispid in the same sense.
1829Loudon Encycl. Plants 811 Stem muricato-hispid. Ibid. 1101. 1840 Paxton Bot. Dict., Muricately-hispid, covered with short, sharp, stiff bristles. |