Spiny \Spin"y\, a. [From Spine.]
1. Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.
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2. Like a spine in shape; slender. "Spiny grasshoppers sit
chirping." --Chapman.
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3. Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances.
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The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy. --Bp.
Warburton.
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Spiny lobster. (Zool.) Same as Rock lobster, under
Rock. See also Lobster.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Spiny \Spin"y\, n.
See Spinny.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
spiny
adj : having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines
or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly
mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous
whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery,
bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose,
setaceous, thorny]
[also: spiniest, spinier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "spiny":
Herculean, abstruse, acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate,
aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, arduous, barbed, brutal,
complex, cornuted, critical, cusped, cuspidate, delicate,
demanding, difficile, difficult, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard,
hard-earned, hard-fought, hispid, horned, horny, intricate,
jawbreaking, knotted, knotty, laborious, mean, mucronate,
needle-pointed, needle-sharp, nettlesome, no picnic, not easy,
operose, pointed, prickly, pronged, rigorous, rough, rugged,
set with thorns, severe, sharp-pointed, spiculate, spiked, spiky,
spined, spinous, steep, strenuous, tapered, tapering, thorny,
ticklish, tined, toilsome, toothed, tough, tricky, unbated, uphill,
wicked
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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