a. Zool. and Bot. [ad. mod.L. spīnulōs-us, f. spīnula SPINULE.]
1. Furnished or covered with spinules.
a. Zool. 1819. G. Samouelle, Entomol. Compend., 221. Tibiæ spinulose.
1859. Dana, Crust., II. 871. This part … excavate and minutely spinulose.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vi. 278. Twenty-six spinulose thoracico-abdominal segments.
b. Bot. 1829. Loudon, Encycl. Plants, 505. Stems and spinulose calyxes covered with wool.
1847. W. E. Steele, Field Bot., 14. Bracts spinulose at base with a long, terminal, slender spine.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 183. Teasel…; hairy or spinulose herbs with angular stems.
2. Having the form of spinules.
1848. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. 288. The spinulose serratures begin … about the middle of the leaf.
1859. T. Moore, Brit. Ferns, 46. Broad rounded segments … notched into a varying number of pointed but not spinulose teeth.
Comb. 1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 466. Lobes oblong spinulose-toothed.
Hence Spinulosely adv.
1857. T. Moore, Handbk. Brit. Ferns (ed. 3), 123. Upper pinnules inciso-lobate with spinulosely serrate lobes.
