mūrĭcātus, a, um, adj. [murex], shaped like a purple-fish, pointed.
I Lit.: folia spinosa, muricatis cacuminibus, Plin. 20, 23, 99, § 262.—
II Transf. (acc. to murex, II. B. 3.), fearful, timid , as if walking over caltrops: gressus, Fulg. Myth. 1.