Usually means: Covered with spines or prickles.
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  1. echinate: Merriam-Webster
  2. echinate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. echinate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. echinate: Wordnik
  5. echinate: Wiktionary
  6. echinate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. echinate: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Echinate, echinate: Dictionary.com
  9. Echinate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Echinate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. echinate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. echinate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. echinate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. echinate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. echinate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Echinate: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Echinate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (echinate)

▸ adjective:  prickly; bristly
▸ noun:  (botany) A bristly grain or pollen

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bristlelike, setiferous, setaceous, bristly, aculeate, aculeolate, aculeiform, aculeated, abristle, pricky, more...

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bristlelike, setiferous, setaceous, bristly, aculeate, aculeolate, aculeiform, aculeated, abristle, pricky, more...



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