echinated

ADJECTIVE

echinate

Synonyms

WEAK

barbed briery bristling prickly pricky spiked spiky spiny thistly

ADJECTIVE

prickly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

complicated knotty nettlesome ticklish tricky

WEAK

annoying barbed bothersome brambly briery bristly intricate involved pointed sharp spiny stimulating troublesome trying

Antonyms

STRONGEST

easy simple uncomplicated

WEAK

happy pleasant smooth

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echinated

The spicules are some crutch-like, others spined or echinated, while the deep-sea sponges appear to grow long thick spicules, which attach the sponge to the ground by means of grapnel-like ends.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various

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