muricate

English

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Etymology

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

Adjective

muricate

  1. (biology) covered with short rough points or studs
    • 1912, John Merle Coulter, M. S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Botanical Gazette, volume 54, page 145:
      […] the small areola at base scarcely forked, closely muricate with silvery-gray spinellae on a brown background.
  2. (mycology) covered with crystals

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Latin

Adjective

mūricāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of mūricātus
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