Spiny

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spiny \Spin"y\, n.
     See {Spinny}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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