comb. form of L. spīnula spinule, used in a few compounds, as spinuli·ferous, spi·nuliform, spinuli-scabrous adjs.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 495. A few minute spinuliform papillæ. Ibid. (1852), Crust., I. 527. Lower margin … spinuli-scabrous.
1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1188/2. Spinuliferus,… having very small spines…: spinuliferous.
1900. Proc. Zool. Soc., 519. The spinuliferous … margins of the carapace.
