spinose
IPA: spɪnˈoʊz
adjective
- Having a spine, or spines
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Examples of "spinose" in Sentences
- The hemipenes of the males are short, thick and spinose.
- Similarly, the spinose fin-rays were to have been termed
- Leaves are alternate and simple; and entire to spinose serrate.
- On segments two to nine, they have light brown complete spinose bands.
- Tail compressed, ending in a small spinose keel, more or less bicuspid.
- The males have hemipenes that are short and spinose beyond the bifurcation.
- The hind legs are covered in large, spinose scales and small, keeled scales.
- The legs spinose; the posterior tibiæ with a double row of strong serrations.
- It is recognized by its oblique cones, conspicuously spinose, indefinitely persistent and very serotinous.
- Thorax: fulvo-hyaline, with a dark fuscous border at the apex; the knees, tibiæ and tarsi reddish-yellow; the two latter spinose.
- The metathorax transversely and rather finely rugose, the truncation more strongly striated; the scutellum shining; the wings subhyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the tibiæ with scattered spines, the tarsi spinose.
- The metathorax transversely rugose; the pectus, and coxæ at their base within, black; wings brown, with a violet iridescence, their base rufo-hyaline; the intermediate and posterior tibiæ with a double row of spines, all the tarsi spinose.
- Thorax and pectus tawny, the former globose, with a black dorsal spot; abdomen tawny at the base; anterior legs testaceous, hind femora spinose beneath; wings grey, darker at the tips; stigma and veins black; halteres testaceous, with piceous tips.
- Similarly, the spinose fin-rays were to have been termed "acanthonemes," the branching and multiarticulate "arthronemes," and those of the more elementary and "adipose fin" type "protonemes": and had he lived to complete the task, I question whether it would not have excelled his earlier achievements.
- Head, thorax, and legs black; the two former closely punctured and thinly covered with short cinereous pubescence; the metathorax with the punctures running into transverse striæ in the middle; the sides of the thorax and the legs with a fine silky silvery-white pile; the tibiæ and tarsi strongly spinose; wings fusco-hyaline; abdomen entirely red, smooth and shining.
- Thorax: the posterior margin of the prothorax rounded; the mesothorax with a longitudinal fuscous stripe on each side, widest anteriorly; the metathorax truncate; above, transversely striate; the tibiæ and tarsi spinose; wings dark fuscous, with a pale semitransparent macula at the base of the second discoidal cell and a dark fuscous macula beyond; the insect entirely covered with a fine orange-red downy pile.