a. [f. L. spīniger spine-bearing.]
1. Ent. (See quot.)
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. xlvi. 333. Spinigerous…. When the Coleoptra have a spine common to them both.
2. Bot. and Zool. = SPINIFEROUS a.
1852. Dana, Crust., I. 371. Front above obliquely subcristate, not spinigerous.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 311. Down the centre of each ray the spinigerous tubercles are in this species arranged with considerable regularity.
