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spinescent, a.|spaɪˈnɛsənt|
[ad. mod.L. spīnescent-, -ens, pres. pple. of L. spīnescere to grow thorny, f. spīna spine n.1 So F. spinescent.]
1. Bot. Developing into, or terminating in, a spine or thorn; also, bearing or covered with spines; spiniferous.
1793Martyn Lang. Bot., Spinescens, spinescent, becoming hard and thorny. 1841Florist's Jrnl. (1846) II. 213 The calyx is small and entire, with five spinescent teeth. 1876Harley Royle's Mat. Med. 666 A shrub with squamose spinescent branches.
2. Zool. Tending to become a spine or spinous process; spinous, spinulous.
1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. II. 526 Feathers of back and rump rigid, often spinescent. 1894[see spinescence]. |