spiny
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In recent years, Lentali has congratulated Musk on company news, and even invited him to the French island to eat “local fish and spiny lobster.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
They also found many arthropods -- a family that includes modern-day crabs and insects -- including spiny, stalk-eyed creatures called radiodonts which were the apex predator of the time.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
British gardens matter more than ever for hedgehogs, according to a study of the secret night life of the spiny mammals.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
From tree stumps and rocks, the spiny reptiles basked and watched as wooden fences subdivided the landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
Around me were seabirds, egrets, and herons, as well as species of murky fish, many of them probably unknown to science, the only evidence of them the occasional spiny fin rising from the surface.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
But her spinier attributes emerge when her beauty idyll is crashed by a rowdy extended family of holidaymakers with various squealing children in tow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
Martin imagined when writing his "Song of Ice and Fire" books; that one is bigger and spinier.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2021
He’s surrounded by spinier, more surprising arrangements, too.
From The Verge ● Sep. 11, 2015
