spiny

IPA: spˈaɪni

noun

  • Archaic form of spinny.

adjective

  • Covered in spines or thorns.
  • Troublesome; difficult or vexing
  • Like a spine in shape; slender.
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Examples of "spiny" in Sentences

  • The petioles are spiny and glabrous.
  • The antennae are very heavy and spiny.
  • The burs are hairy and sometimes spiny.
  • The stems are pinnately lobed and spiny.
  • Echidna is the spiny anteater, an Australian monotreme.
  • The margins of this spiny leaf are occasionally serrate.
  • The abdomen is longer than broad and the legs are spiny.
  • Also, the stalks are spiny and the tuberous rhizomes has eyes.
  • The species is sometimes referred to as the 'Graphic Spiny Lizard'.
  • The leaves are linear and spiny, with a spiral arrangement on the tree.
  • Properly called the spiny dogfish or spurdog (Squalus acanthias), the chippy's favoured shark is more usually labelled as rock salmon.
  • I mean, discipline -- if ever you'd known discipline -- in the police if you like -- anything -- anywhere where there's what we used to call spiny de cor.
  • Thalamic input only accounts for five percent of the signals that so-called spiny stellate cells in the cortex receive, even though they drive a good portion of activity throughout the cerebral cortex.
  • The Houses of Parliament runs one; another casts its spooky glow over Buckingham Palace gardens a sub- Saharan moth called the spiny bollworm puzzled scientists until they discovered a state delegation from Tanzania had stayed with the Queen the week before.
  • Among the fossils found here are acanthodians - the so-called "spiny sharks" which are thought to be the oldest vertebrates to possess true teeth - and what Blais and colleagues consider to be a chondrichthyan, or an early member of the group of cartilaginous fish which includes sharks, skates, and rays today.

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