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ech·i·nate

 (ĕk′ə-nāt′)
adj.
Bearing or covered with spines or bristles; prickly.
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echinate

(ˈɛkɪˌneɪt) or

echinated

adj
(Biology) biology covered with spines, bristles, or bristle-like outgrowths
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e•chi•nate

(ɪˈkaɪ neɪt, -nɪt, ˈɛk əˌneɪt, -nɪt)

also e•chi•nat•ed

(-neɪ tɪd, -ˌneɪ tɪd)

adj.
bristly; prickly.
[1660–70; < Latin echīnātus. See echinus, -ate1]
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echinate

adjective
Full of sharp needlelike protuberances:
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Pollen types identified from Refahiye propolis Taxa/Family % Taxa/Family % Apiaceae 1.2 Fagaceae Asteraceae Quercus 11.2 Echinate type 9.2 Lamiaceae 2.6 Scabrate type 1.2 Thymus 1 Xanthium 2 Phlomis 0.6 Taraxacum 1.8 Rosaceae 1.8 Carthamus 4.2 Sanguisorba 0.6 Centaurea 1.8 Salicaceae Betulaceae Salix 5 Betula 0.4 Populus 4 Boraginaceae 8.8 Pinaceae Onosma 0.6 Pinus 0.2 Brassicaceae 0.6 Poaceae 0.6 Campanulaceae 1 Unidentified 1.2 Fabaceae 20.2 Astragalus 10.2 Onobrychis 8 Table 2.
Pollen grains of Asteraceae and analogous echinate grains.
Description: Miospore, trilete, amb sub-circular to broadly triangular, Y-mark well developed, discernible, reaching upto the margins, exine echinate, upto 3m thick.
For example, scales of many colubrid species have a similar microornamentation pattern: they are lamellate-imbricate at the basal end and echinate at the apical end (Price and Kelly, 1989).
Echinate pollen in particular is often reflected in spiny orbicules (Fig.
millefolium were found to be compositous, that is, echinate and tectate with spiny exine and 3 pores.
Pollen echinate and echini large in size and spaced widely, easy to count and distinct with blunt apex.
Pollen grain is typical of Compositae very thick echinate exine with short, acute spines (Figure 1).
esculentus pollen is echinate and has a large size (Vaissiere and Vinson, 1994).
Cyclantherinae is characterized by pollen grains 4-8 colporate and punctitegilate (Marticorena, 1963; Jeffrey, 1990; Shridhar & Singh, 1990; Stafford & Sutton, 1994; Khunwasi, 1998), and Sicyinae by pollen grains 715 colpate and echinate (Marticorena, 1963; Shridhar & Singh, 1990; Khunwasi 1998).
cantabrica Echinate hairs Present Absent Absent Staminal Glabrous Glabrous Hairy at base filaments Bract and Variable; at Basal Half way of the bracteoles base, middle or pedicel, rarely top of the basal pedicel Stigma Broadly Obconic to Obconic to capitate, capitate capitate disk-like Corolla length 2-3 3-3.5 3.5-5 (mm) Corolla lobes 0.4-0.8 (1.5) 1-1.5 0.8-1 (mm) Anther size 0.7-1.1 0.8-1 0.6-0.9 (mm) Anther 0.3-0.7 Toothed 0.2-0.4 0.5-0.7 appendages (mm) Spinulose Coarsely spinulose