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When Spiny Norman, the giant hedgehog, goes looking for the Dimsdale brothers in Monty Python.
The rules were fairly lax, and we watched Spiny Norman shouting “Dimsdale!”
Here and there a cactus plant thrust spiny arms into the air.
Acanthopterygian, ak-an-thop-tėr-ij′i-an, adj. having spiny fins.
A veritable hail of thunderbolts now crashed down upon the creature's spiny back.
The erect flower-stem terminates in a large round head of numerous imbricated oval spiny scales which surround the flowers.
Astragalus, a genus of papilionaceous plants, herbaceous or shrubby, and often spiny.
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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to spiny, such as: barbed, pointy, sharp, spiked, spiky, and spinous.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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