Definition of "echinated" []

• Rendered prickly or bristly.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "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."
• "C. leflfer than the fofmer, being little more than fix inches in cir - cumference.; the color white •, the ribs echinated higher up -, has only fixteen ribs, the former twenty-one; the fliape rounder."
• "SciRPUS paluHris Rufli-grafs, marfh Canada Kalm'sTrav.iii. p, S3, capitatus globofe Virginia capi] Iaris dwarf Virginia mucronatus mucrenated Virginia cchinatus echinated N.Amer. retrofraftus Virginia fpadiceus brown Virginia Eriophorum Virgin."