muricate

covered with short rough points or studs

Adjective

  1. covered with short rough points or studs
    • […] the small areola at base scarcely forked, closely muricate with silvery-gray spinellae on a brown background. - 1912, John Merle Coulter, M. S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Botanical Gazette, volume 54, page 145:
  2. covered with crystals

Origin

First attested in 1661; borrowed from Latin mūricātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from mūrex (“a pointed rock or stone”).

Forms

muricated