spinule

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin spinula, diminutive of Latin spina (“a spine”). Compare French spinule.

Noun

spinule (plural spinules)

1. A minute spine.
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     Alongside of the pairs, there is often another smaller spinule, on one side or both, sometimes a second; and rarely, there are scattered spinules upon the surface between

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spinule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Lupiens, line ups, line-ups, lines up, lineups, lupines, pinules, unpiles, up lines, up-lines, uplines

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French

Noun

spinule f (plural spinules)

1. spinule

Further reading

• “spinule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈspinule]

Noun

spinule m

1. vocative singular of spin