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Definition of Spiny

Spiny
Spiny Spin"y, a. [From Spine.] 1. Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree. 2. Like a spine in shape; slender. ``Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping.' --Chapman. 3. Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances. The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy. --Bp. Warburton. Spiny lobster. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Rock lobster, under Rock. See also Lobster.
Spiny
Spiny Spin"y, n. See Spinny.

Meaning of Spiny from wikipedia

- Look up spiny in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Spiny may refer to: Spiny, Poland, a village in the district of Gmina Pakosławice, within Nysa County...
- Spiny lobsters, also known as langustas, langouste, or rock lobsters, are a family (Palinuridae) of about 60 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda...
- The spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), spurdog, mud shark, or piked dogfish is one of the best known species of the Squalidae (dogfish) family of sharks...
- Echidnas (/ɪˈkɪdnəz/), sometimes known as spiny anteaters, are quill-covered monotremes (egg-laying mammals) belonging to the family Tachyglossidae /tækiˈɡlɒsɪdiː/...
- the only genus in the family Spondylidae. They are known in English as spiny oysters or thorny oysters (though they are not, in fact, true oysters)....
- Spiny rat may refer to: Echimyidae, the Neotropical spiny rats, a family of South and Central American caviomorph rodents or any of the following genera...
- The spiny babbler (****oides nipalensis) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. Found only in the Middle Hills of Nepal, it can for example...
- The name spiny eel is used to describe members of two different families of fish: the freshwater Mastacembelidae of Asia and Africa, and the marine (and...
- spiny mice Western Saharan spiny mouse, Acomys airensis Cairo spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus Chudeau's spiny mouse, Acomys chudeaui Asia Minor spiny mouse...
- The Texas spiny lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard native to the south central United States, in the states of Texas,...