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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesstachelig
Pronunciation / Transliteration: stachelig
"Die Sporen dieser Pilzart sind stachelig."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
Having a surface covered with small prickles, spines, or stinging hairs.
"The spores of the newly discovered mushroom species were distinctly echinulate under the microscope." - 2
In bacteriology, having a growth along the line of inoculation with a toothed or pointed margin.
"The bacterial culture exhibited an echinulate growth pattern on the agar slant."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Latin word 'echinatus', meaning prickly or spiny, which comes from 'echinus' (sea urchin), originating from the ancient Greek 'echinos'. It entered scientific English in the 19th century as a precise descriptive term used primarily in botany and mycology to denote surfaces covered with small prickles.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Echinulate" is said worldwide
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échinué
Transliteration: e-chi-nüe
"Les spores de ce champignon sont échinuées."
stachelig
Transliteration: stachelig
"Die Sporen dieser Pilzart sind stachelig."
echinulato
Transliteration: e-chi-nu-la-to
"Il fungo presenta spore di aspetto echinulato."
equinulado
Transliteration: e-ki-nu-la-do
"Las esporas de esta especie son equinuladas."
equinulado
Transliteration: e-ki-nu-la-du
"A superfície do esporo é equinulada."
कांटेदार
Transliteration: kaantedaar
Script: हिंदी देवनागरी
"इस कवक के बीजाणु कांटेदार होते हैं।"
具小刺的
Transliteration: jù xiǎo cì de
Script: 中文汉字
"这种真菌的孢子具有小刺。"
가시가 돋은
Transliteration: gasilga dodeun
Script: 한국어 한글
"이 균류의 포자는 가시가 돋은 형태를 띤다."
微刺状の
Transliteration: bisaijō no
Script: 日本語
"このキノコの胞子は微刺状である。"
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