a. [See SPINULE and -ATE.] Furnished with spinules or small spines.
1866. Bowerbank, Monogr. Brit. Spongiadæ, II. 66. Polymastia spinula,… Sponge…. External defensive spicula of … fistulæ spinulate. Ibid., 69. There are numerous small spinulate spicula.
So Spinulated a.
1900. J. T. Cunningham, Sexual Dimorphism, 8. The presence of well-developed ctenoid or spinulated scales all over both sides of the body.
