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Значения термина spininess на английском

The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines.

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Examples for "prickliness"
Examples for "prickliness"
1
Was it truly no more than pettiness and childish prickliness, as Kilmandaros suggests?
Return of the Crimson Guard
2
I lie there pondering his fiscal prickliness, wholly mysterious to me.
Lit: a memoir
3
Finally there was a hint of the prickliness the thistle is supposed to represent.
The Guardian
4
What others-particularlysome American hackers-viewedas prickliness, Pad saw as the perfect sense of humour.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
5
Yet what had waved off her could very well be the cause of all that prickliness.
Mad enough to marry
1
In their thorniness, however, there is no malice, only some malic acid.
Wild Apples
2
She was right about the thorniness of the situation, Rozsak reflected.
Torch of Freedom
3
The most characteristic feature of the jungle was its thorniness.
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
4
It was a rank wild growth, with many green leaves on it still, and made an impression of thorniness.
Wild Apples
5
Cunning little thing, for all her thorniness and her sharpness with him, which he now saw that he had deserved....
Murder at Bridge
1
For the vegetation of Lower California makes up in bristliness what it lacks in luxuriance.
The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches
2
Once, in weightlessness training, she had brushed against his hair and had been surprised by its boarlike bristliness.
Gravity