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adjective
- 1. full of or covered with prickles: "a spiny cactus"
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1. : abounding with difficulties, obstacles, or annoyances : thorny. spiny problems. 2. : covered or armed with spines. broadly : bearing spines, prickles, or thorns. 3. : slender and pointed like a spine. spininess noun. Synonyms. catchy. delicate. difficult. dodgy [ chiefly British] hairy. knotty. nasty. prickly. problematical. sensitive. sticky.
The skin, hair & bone of non-human animals. Examples from literature. (Definition of spiny from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of spiny. spiny. For acouchies, spiny rats and marsupials, live-trapping was the main capture method. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
Spiny definition: abounding in or having spines; thorny, as a plant.. See examples of SPINY used in a sentence.
spiny in American English. (ˈspaini) adjective Word forms: spinier, spiniest. 1. abounding in or having spines; thorny, as a plant. 2. covered with or having sharp-pointed processes, as an animal. 3. in the form of a spine; resembling a spine; spinelike.
Spiny things are prickly or barbed, like a porcupine or a cactus. You have to be careful when you pick up something spiny. There are many spiny plants and animals, including roses, fish with spiny fins, sea urchins, and hedgehogs. They're all spiny for the same reason—as a defense against predators.
The skin, hair & bone of non-human animals. Examples from literature. Madagascar’s most unusual forests are the spiny forests. (Definition of spiny from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of spiny. spiny. The thorny-headed worm specimen has a protruding appendage bearing spiny hooks.
Definition of spiny adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. (Zoology) (of animals) having or covered with quills or spines. 2. (Botany) (of plants) covered with spines; thorny. 3. troublesome to handle; puzzling. 4. shaped like a spine. ˈspininess n.
spiny meaning, definition, what is spiny: a spiny animal or plant has lots of stif...: Learn more.
a stiff-pointed bone or part of a bodily structure of an animal, such as the quill of a porcupine. [ uncountable] courage; mettle. Printing [ countable] the back of a book binding, usually indicating the title and author. spin•y, adj., -i•er, -i•est: I stuck my finger on one of the fish's spiny fins.
