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Meanings of spiny in English

Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Related terms

Having spines.

Usage of spiny in English
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The next two cases include the remaining specimens of the spiny-finned fish.
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2
By the cliff edge the spiny cactus threw out strange withered arms.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
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They include species like the small blue butterfly and the spiny dogfish.
BBC
4
DavRian kicked a small, leafy plant that grew among the spiny gorse.
Spirit of the Wolves
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After all, the spiny foliage discourages any grazing, or so I thought.
The Guardian
6
She tipped the remaining contents onto the roots of a spiny bush.
More Than Honor
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The spiny face nodded slightly, then Mariu padded away without a word.
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Inside his skull, the spiny gelatin that was Fryx writhed in fear.
Mech
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Each word was a spiny burr being torn out of his throat.
Dark rivers of the heart
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Scraps of spiny jelly and white skull fragments showered the jungle floor.
Mech
11
Head elongate; ears round; feet arboreal, naked below; tail semi-nude; pelage not spiny.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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You're uploads -nervous system state vectors -from spiny lobsters?
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Some are plump and fleshy, others spiny and spiky, often with flamboyant flowers.
The Irish Times
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Again there are long, spiny spatters radiating from a central stain.
Deadly Décisions
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Patch-clamp recordings were performed from medium-sized spiny neurons, the primary target of interneurons.
Pubmed
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The lovely grass was deceptive: not soft but sharp and spiny and painful.
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