aculeatedadj.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 71 A man of an acute but aculeated wit.

1798 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit. (ed. 8) iv. 260 Two aculeated closing words.

1813 J. Jebb Let. 10 Dec. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) II. 170 The apothegms..and aculeated sayings of the ancients, are inestimable.

1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 462/2 A trenchant, pungent, aculeated form of terse, glittering, stenographic sentences.

1997 D. Solway Random Walks i. vi. 59 Betraying language in its poetic or aculeated function in order to honour a commitment to ‘fact’ or to the ‘real’ as it impinges upon the personality.

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Zz Certain..aculeated cups..dissepted with little fences.

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Aculeated, made sharp and prickly like a Needles point.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. xi. 190 [The mouth] is..in some [insects] aculeated; to pierce and wound Animals, and suck their Blood.

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados iv. 102 Its Leaves much resemble those of the Cabbage-tree; but their Pinnæ are harder, and aculeated.

1755 Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 859 Mercurius vitæ, fluxed per se, hath also this aculeated or needle-like appearance.

1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 162 Head round; jaws short; tongue aculeated.

1883 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 10 17 Membrane primarily more or less densely aculeated.

1927 I. S. Oldroyd Marine Shells West Coast N. Amer. II. ii. 58 Shell rather thin,..with eight to fifteen (usually about twelve) lamellae, narrowly aculeated at the top of the whorls.

1939 Mycologia 31 558 Because of its characteristic aculeated zoösporangia and its general habit of growth the organism was recognized as one described by Blytt in 1882.