Thesaurus / spiny
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He tried kicking his foot out to dislodge the spiny hitchhiker.
HOW TO REMOVE CACTUS SPINES (INCLUDING ONES STUCK IN YOUR THROAT)KATE BAGGALEYOCTOBER 4, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEDepending on the lighting, you might not recognize that it’s a spiny as it is until you feel it.
HOW TO REMOVE CACTUS SPINES (INCLUDING ONES STUCK IN YOUR THROAT)KATE BAGGALEYOCTOBER 4, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEWhile it’s one of the continent’s largest rodents— measuring up to three feet in length—this spiny friend is nothing to be afraid of.
HOW TO NOT GET PRICKED BY A NORTH AMERICAN PORCUPINENATALIE WALLINGTONSEPTEMBER 17, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEMeanwhile, its spiny claws combed through the sediment and drew prey towards its mouth.
THIS ANCIENT ‘MOTHERSHIP’ USED PROBING ‘FINGERS’ TO SCRAPE THE OCEAN FLOOR FOR PREYKATE BAGGALEYSEPTEMBER 9, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe spiny water flea is being studied and monitored in Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park and Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
A SPIKY FLEA COULD RUIN MIDWESTERN ECOSYSTEMS AND KILL NATIVE FISHBY ABI COLE/OUTDOOR LIFEFEBRUARY 17, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEHere and there a cactus plant thrust spiny arms into the air.
THE SUNBRIDGE GIRLS AT SIX STAR RANCHELEANOR H. (ELEANOR HODGMAN) PORTERAcanthopterygian, ak-an-thop-tėr-ij′i-an, adj. having spiny fins.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 1 OF 4: A-D)VARIOUSA veritable hail of thunderbolts now crashed down upon the creature's spiny back.
THE MYTHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANSLEWIS SPENCEThe erect flower-stem terminates in a large round head of numerous imbricated oval spiny scales which surround the flowers.
THE NEW GRESHAM ENCYCLOPEDIA. VOL. 1 PART 2VARIOUSAstragalus, a genus of papilionaceous plants, herbaceous or shrubby, and often spiny.
THE NEW GRESHAM ENCYCLOPEDIA. VOL. 1 PART 2VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SPINY
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- edged
- fine
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- sharpened
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- edged
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- knifelike
- lancinating
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- sharpened
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
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