spinous

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The Spinous Rats are little animals much resembling ordinary rats; but with the peculiarity of having stiff spines growing among their hair, after the manner of porcupine quills.

From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by Harvey, William

The Dressing is prepar'd by laying two thin Plates of Lead on each side of the Spinous Process of the Vertebra, to maintain it in its Place, and a long Bolster over 'em.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

Spinous process: A process or bony protuberance, resembling a spine or thorn, whence it derives its name.

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther

Ascending high that Southern hill, Spinous ferns I sought to find.

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius

This is the Spinous Lizard exhibited by Mr. Gould at the meeting of the Zoological Society in October 1840.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George