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Spiny   /spˈaɪni/   Listen
adjective
Spiny  adj.  
1.
Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.
2.
Like a spine in shape; slender. "Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping."
3.
Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances. "The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy."
Spiny lobster. (Zool.) Same as Rock lobster, under Rock. See also Lobster.


noun
Spiny  n.  See Spinny.





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"Spiny" Quotes from Famous Books



... that cried Chattering a moment after in the light, And singing out of such contentment as Lamps and familiar voices bring. She needs must sing Now that sharp, spiny agony thrust no more, Nor water fell, drip, drip by quivering drip; Her face was bright, Unapprehensive as a ...
— Poems New and Old • John Freeman
... with a row of ovals; the shoulder with a true herring-bone band; a vine with spiny leaves ...
— Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 • James Stevenson
... clothed with the spirally arranged leaves, and bearing a single terminal fruit ac large as a swan's egg. Others of intermediate size have irregular clusters of rough red fruits, and all have more or less spiny-edged leaves and ringed stems. The young plants of the larger species have smooth glossy thick leaves, sometimes ten feet long and eight inches wide, which are used all over the Moluccas and New Guinea, to make "cocoyas" or sleeping mats, which are often very prettily ornamented with ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume II. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... and with lovely moths came huge cockchafers (Encerris Griffithii), and enormous and foetid flying-bugs (of the genus Derecterix), which bear great horns on the thorax. The irritation of mosquito and midge bites, and the disgusting insects that clung with spiny legs to the blankets of my tent and bed, were often as effectual in banishing sleep, as were my anxious thoughts ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
... winter becomes a wilderness of mud; dry traces of vast slough and occasional stagnant pools showed what the state of things would be a couple of months hence. The properties were divided by hedges of agave—huge growths, grandly curving their sword-pointed leaves. Its companion, the spiny cactus, writhed here and there among juniper bushes and tamarisks. Along the wayside rose tall, dead thistles, white with age, their great cluster of seed-vessels showing how fine the flower had been. Above our ...
— By the Ionian Sea - Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy • George Gissing


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