Usually means: Covered with spines or thorns.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word spinose:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. spinose: Merriam-Webster
  2. spinose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spinose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spinose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spinose: Wordnik
  6. spinose: Wiktionary
  7. spinose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. spinose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. spinose: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. spinose: Dictionary.com
  11. Spinose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. spinose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. spinose: Rhymezone
  14. Spinose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. spinose: FreeDictionary.org
  16. spinose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. spinose: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. spinose: Vocabulary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. spinose: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spinose)

▸ adjective:  Having a spine, or spines

Similar:
rough, spinescent, spinigerous, spinate, spinoid, aspinous, spiniferous, aspiny, actinophorous, spinulate, more...

Opposite:
smooth, unspiny, spineless

Types:
thorny, prickly, spiny, bristly, burred, setose, hispid, more...

Phrases:
spinose ear tick, more...

Adjectives:
cuticle, densely, more, less, body, cirrus, coarsely, non, large, cucullus, tibiae

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Similar:
rough, spinescent, spinigerous, spinate, spinoid, aspinous, spiniferous, aspiny, actinophorous, spinulate, more...

Opposite:
smooth, unspiny, spineless

Types:
thorny, prickly, spiny, bristly, burred, setose, hispid, more...

Phrases:
spinose ear tick, more...

Adjectives:
cuticle, densely, more, less, body, cirrus, coarsely, non, large, cucullus, tibiae



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