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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SPINULOSE; SPINULOUS

Spin "u *lose `, Spin "u *lous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. spinuleux.]

 

Defn: Covered with small spines.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

spinulose

spin u lose |ˈspīnyəˌlōs ˈspaɪnjəloʊs | ▶adjective Botany & Zoology having small spines. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from modern Latin spinulosus, from spinula, diminutive of spina ‘thorn, spine. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

spinulose

spinulose |ˈspɪnjʊləʊs | ▶adjective Botany & Zoology having small spines. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from modern Latin spinulosus, from spinula, diminutive of spina ‘thorn, spine ’.