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Muricate

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    covered with short rough points or studs

    "[…] the small areola at base scarcely forked, closely muricate with silvery-gray spinellae on a brown background."

  2. 2
    covered with crystals

Etymology

First attested in 1661; borrowed from Latin mūricātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from mūrex (“a pointed rock or stone”).

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