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Webster 1828 Edition


Echinate

ECH'INATE


Definition 2024


echinate

echinate

English

Adjective

echinate (comparative more echinate, superlative most echinate)

  1. prickly; bristly
    an echinate pericarp

Noun

echinate (plural echinates)

  1. (botany) A bristly grain

Latin

Adjective

echināte

  1. vocative masculine singular of echinātus