Noun: spinule
| Singular | spinule |
| Plural | spinules |
Sample Sentences
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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 [c. 1852, James Dwight Dana, Crustacaea:]
Nouns inflected like spinule
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Anglicized form of Late Latin spīnula, diminutive of Latin spīna (“a spine”). Compare French spinule. See: Latin Nouns '
spīna', French Nouns '
spinule'.