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Spinosity

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spi·nose  (spns)
adj.
Bearing spines; spiny: a spinose plant.
[Latin spnsus, from spna, thorn.]
spinosely adv.
spi·nosi·ty (-ns-t) n.
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The results suggested that prey with less expressed ornamentation were preferred ahead of highly spinose prey, and Stone therefore concluded that the primary effect of more pronounced spinosity was that of preventing direct access to the shell of the bivalve.
Testing the role of spines as predatory defense by Willman, Sebastian / Journal of Shellfish Research
 
 
 
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