Spination
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Spination is a noun meaning (zoology) The distribution of spines on an organism.
Meaning
(zoology) The distribution of spines on an organism.
Example Sentences
They share few characters: 25 vertebrae; compact, triangular gut; inconspicuous gas bladder; and some head spination.
The internal defensive spicula are very numerous, and appear all to spring from the basal membrane, their diameter is nearly the same at the base, but they vary greatly in their length and also in the degree of their spinations; in some the spines are quite in an incipient state, while in others they are well and distinctly produced.
Word Forms
- spinations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spine, protospine, spinescence, sporification, spiculum, spiraster.
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