Crossword-Solution: SPINESCENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spinescent | a. | Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPINESCENT | anagram | PINESCENTS |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Sentences with SPINESCENT (5)
The vegetation is generally gloomy and sad; it has the aspect of our evergreens or heaths; the plants are for the most part woody; the leaves of nearly all the plants are linear, lanceolated, small, coriaceous, and spinescent.
The rachis is herbaceous, broad flexuous, jointed and bearing at each joint a solitary globose cluster of two or three perfect 1-flowered glabrous spikelets surrounded by many short spinescent glumes of imperfect ones.
The _inflorescence_ consists of a long or short, slender, shining peduncle bearing two or three rigid, flattened, flexuous, jointed spikes, the rachis is broad, herbaceous, with a flat, broad, closely nerved wing on both the sides and with a distinct flat midrib and jointed, each joint bears on the under surface at the articulation, a solitary, globose cluster of two to three perfect 1-flowered glabrous spikelets surrounded by many short spinescent glumes of imperfect ones.
Defn: The state or quality of being spinescent or spiny; also, a spiny growth or covering, as of certain animals.
Resembles the first species somewhat in habit, size, and the spinescent capillitium, but the resemblance is superficial only.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1970).