How To Use Spiny In A Sentence

Seingô shrieked in rage, and clawed out at him with spiny, thorny arms.
Berberis darwinii is a small, dense shrub, spiny of leaf and stem, like an angry little holly. Times, Sunday Times
The platypus and the echidna - a nocturnal, burrowing mammal with a spiny coat, long claws, and no teeth - are the only known living members of a type of animal known as monotremes.
The spiny, reddish-brown stems are clad with oval-shaped, glossy green leaves with notched margins. The Sun
The seabed under the arch is covered in large boulders 18m below, all covered in an algal fuzz that is home to large numbers of wrasse, bream and spiny starfish.

Also, the undersides of an osprey's feet are covered in spiny spicules which prevent fish from wriggling free.
The leaves are trifoliate with tomentose leaflets that have the typical reticulate venation of yams, 12-16 cm long, 6-9 cm broad: the petioles are pubescent and often spiny. Chapter 37
The dark red, spiny fruit of the organ cactus, the pitahaya is used in savory sauces or eaten fresh. The dark red, spiny fruit of the organ cactus, the pitahaya is used in savory sauces or eaten fresh. Esta es la fruta espinosa, de color rojo, del cactus órgano. Se utiliza en salsas saladas o para comerse fresca.
Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish.
The wormlike, often brightly colored, hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth.
a spiny operculum, as in all but the selachian fishes, but with one of skin. The History of Animals
Nick had a wiggly neck wattle and a chest so spiny he looked more soup chicken than grown man. ROUGH JUSTICE
Buckeyes are dropping from the trees - watch out for the spiny ones - and squirrels bide their time, waiting for undefended focaccia crumbs to hit the ground.
Now the little ersh had come to the meeting, with his spiny back, and his big front fins, and his head all shining in blue and gold and green. Old Peter's Russian Tales
There are a fair number of nudibranchs and flatworms, all brightly coloured and sometimes difficult to distinguish, featherstars, shrimps, spiny lobsters and other hole-dwelling critters.
Non-drugged rats that were placed in the complex cages had spiny neurons with increased dendritic branching, reflecting new neuronal development.
It's simple to get close to animals like scrawled filefish and spiny puffers which prove too timid to approach in the daytime.
Spiny agaves are limited to the front yard, while softer plants grow in back, where the children play.
Prunus tells us that it is a member of the plum family and spinosa means that it is spiny.
This big brown beetle with long antennae and a spiny pronotum was also a recent sidewalk casualty. Archive 2007-08-01
Capitulum bracts are spiny and coated with a dense white arachnoidal indumentum.
The following afternoon they encountered not a herd of the achivar but a veritable spiny army, sweeping toward them from the south. The Deluge Drivers
He saw spiny creatures with bloody saucerlike eyes struggling as they were dragged under by boiling masses of slippery black tentacles. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
But only the spiny puffer combines inflation and pointy spikes in one spectacular defense mechanism.
The seedpod is a spiny, prickly burr and was everywhere I stepped. Eliza’s Freedom Road
A sticker is a small seed with spiny barbs that stick to anything that passes.
Echimyids earn their common name because most species have spiny or bristly hairs at least on their backs and rumps.
Worse, the notion of "man" would need an interpretation characterized by exceeding liberality to accommodate any likeness of the branchy, spiny, mandibled things that pulled her down through a deep fissure. Locust Valley Breakdown
Other flowers present that are now scarce in Suffolk include spiny restharrow and the yellow flowered sulphur clover.
These micro-organisms are found in just a few pieces of amber among the thousands that have been studied, but show a remarkable diversity: unicellular algae, mainly diatoms found in large numbers, traces of animal plankton, such as radiolaria and a foraminifer, spiny skeletons of sponges and of echinoderms. Signs of the Times
Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish.
Also called balloonfish, spiny puffers belong to the Tetraodontiformes, an order of fishes known for their strange structures and odd behaviors.
The tropical marine blowfish, which can grossly distend its spiny body into globular form, thereby terrifying confused predators.
Rauwerdink later merged the two species into M. sagu, based on the fact that seeds from spineless palms can produce spiny seedlings.
These achivar are neither asleep nor feeding, and if we were to come to a stop the dyella might decide spineless Tran are more agreeable prey than speedy, spiny achivar. The Deluge Drivers
It was finally decided to use Humbert’s linework for the spiny thicket ecoregion, but form an additional ecoregion defined by the remaining extent of Cornet’s subarid bioclimate, as it shares floral affinities with both the spiny thicket and western dry-deciduous forest, yet contains distinct assemblages. Madagascar spiny thickets
Eight other species, including pacas, pacaranas, spiny rats and porcupines, also steal Brazil nuts stored by agoutis.
The spiny anteater is a mammal, although a very primitive one.
Big brown beetle with long antennae and a spiny pronotum Big brown beetle with long antennae and a spiny pronotum
The tall caraiba trees formed a long thin green gallery through the otherwise dry and spiny caatinga. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
Monogenic control was also found for spiny versus spineless, with the spiny trait being completely or partially dominant.
Also among marine snails, thick, nodose, spiny, or otherwise ornamented shells are competitive in the sense that they foil predators.
He cringed to hear it—its hull grinding the calices of finger corals and the tiny tubes of pipe organ corals, tearing the flower and fern shapes of soft corals, and damaging shells too: punching holes in olives and murexes and spiny whelks, in Hydatina physis and Turris babylonia. The Shell Collector : Stories
A key characteristic is their well-defined spiny hairs, which cover their body and give them a prickly appearance.
Without claws, spiny lobsters use their antennae to fend off predators.
Spiny, egg-like sea-urchins, green wrinkles, and an occasional flounder or lamper-eel gave variety to the catch. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good
Small, spiny, pointy-nosed creatures known as tenrecs are the equivalents of shrews, moles and hedgehogs.
I munch a mushroom, then strip a spiny ground herb to yield a mouthful of sweet white pith.
The marine environment contains considerable numbers of spiny lobster and a wide range of littoral and sublittoral invertebrates and fish. Scandola Nature Reserve & Capes Girolata and Porto, France
And not just any fish, mind you, but tasty ones, like flying fish, yellowtail and blowfish - the forbidden fugu - plus spiny, slimy things like ebi, abalone and crawfish.
Uniquely, the spiny skeletons and cyst shells of acantharians are composed of crystalline strontium sulphate, known as celestite, precipitated from seawater in the upper ocean. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
I munch a mushroom, then strip a spiny ground herb to yield a mouthful of sweet white pith.
The Palinuridae family includes the commercially exploited crustaceans of Australia that are known as rock lobsters, spiny crayfish and marine crayfish.
Other important plants in the sagebrush belt are antelope bitterbrush, shadscale, fourwing saltbush, rubber rabbitbrush, spiny hopsage, horsebrush, and short-statured Gambel oak. Intermountain Semidesert and Desert Province (Bailey)
The spiny thicket or "spiny desert" of southern Madagascar, also referred to as deciduous thicket, is a globally distinctive ecoregion. Madagascar spiny thickets
They can also tackle the spiny seedheads of teasel, and the hooked seedhead balls of burdock. Times, Sunday Times
Juniper is one of Britain's three native species of conifer and is evergreen with short spiny leaves.
And not just any fish, mind you, but tasty ones, like flying fish, yellowtail and blowfish - the forbidden fugu - plus spiny, slimy things like ebi, abalone and crawfish.
The sago tree is a palm, thicker and larger than the cocoa-nut tree, although rarely so tall, and having immense pinnate spiny leaves, which completely cover the trunk till it is many years old. The Malay Archipelago
As she put names to the species around us - lovely names, like pickleweed and coyote melon, Mormon tea and mallow - I imagined them frizzling to extinction on the hillside, leaving a last few, spiny xerophytes to subsist on bare shale.
The path through an entrance pavilion (embellished by a Bertoia sculpture) opens into a magical stony garden, a fragment of desert outcrop sprouting spiny cacti and frangipani.
Claws linked tightly to claws while spiny legs entwined, the chitonous queue continuing to thicken and grow even as those aboard the trapped vessel gathered to gaze at the astonishing sight. A Triumph of Souls
The dominant vegetation in the Park is open woodland and spinifex (spiny hummockgrass) grassland, with many eucalypts, acacias and grevilleas; notably silverleaf bloodwood Eucalyptus collina and roughleaf range gum E. aspera, The regionally endemic sandstone grevillea Grevillea miniata, and rock grevillea G. psilantha, are found only in the Park. Purnululu National Park, Australia
Breck continued research in herpetology, studying the natural history of Manitoba toads and spiny soft-shelled turtles.
These make a refreshing change from the usual red and look lovely against a backdrop of dark green spiny leaves.
He pointed to the straggly, exhaust-choked line of spiny hedging that grew against the railing. The Priest
An archaeopteryx, feathers and all, spreads its wings as you open one page; a lumbering ankylosaur rises from the folds of another, its spiny tail raised threateningly.
A night dive on the house reef revealed spiny lobsters and red crabs, morays, scorpionfish and lionfish.
While the store now seemed small to him, the trees—pecan and chinaberry and the occasional spiny-trunked palm—seemed enormous. Calling Up Ghosts on the Ten-Mile Straight
Among the spiny-finned fishes, the Sticklebacks are the prettiest, but so savage that they often occasion much mischief. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
Spicules are loosely interlocked to form a large and spiny subspherical shell.
Aralia elatais fat and spiny and it suckers to make sinister colonies. Times, Sunday Times
In the morelloid clade, the concentrations of these compounds decrease dramatically as fruit matures, while in many members of the spiny solanums, concentrations remain high at fruit ripeness.
Painter DL, Moore MC (2005) Steroid hormone metabolism by the chorioallantoic placenta of the mountain spiny lizard Sceloporus jarrovi as a possible mechanism for buffering maternal-fetal hormone exchange. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The mountains themselves appeared the spiny backbones or monstrous prehistoric behemoths that were buried in thousands of layers of earth, and trying in vain to free themselves.
The tuna tataki dissolved on the tongue, the sous-vide poached egg was sublime, and the local spiny lobster? Times, Sunday Times
Avoid thorny and spiny plants, which can cause serious eye injuries.
Today we do not have live spiny lobsters (langouste) in great abundance.
Vegetation is dominated by black greasewood, spiny hopsage, bud sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, inland saltgrass, alkali sacaton, and basin wildrye. Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)
Wrasses characteristically have a protractile mouth, cycloid scales, and a single continuous dorsal fin lacking an obvious notch between the soft and spiny portions.
In their desert habitats their diet consists of spiny cactus, yucca pods, creosote bush, cholla, pinyon nuts, seeds, prickly pear, and any available green vegetation.
One of the spiny legs went into the air, angling down for him, but he moved his sword, made with the strange black stone from the Dragon Hills, and easily cleaved it off mid-joint.
These are the only other winter annuals at this site with spiny nutlets that are somewhat similar to those of P. recurvata.
Small mammals and their predators are also abundant,, including hyrax (Procavia capensis), brown hare (Lepus capensis), spiny mouse (Acomys spp.), large North African gerbil (Gerbillus campestris), Nigerian gerbil (G. nigeriae), bushy-tailed jird (Sekeetamys calurus) and three different fox species, Rueppel's sandfox (Vulpes rueppelli), sand fox (Vulpes pallida) and Fennec fox (Fennecus zerda). Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands
There are only three living monotremes, the duck-billed platypus and two species of echidna, or ‘spiny anteaters’, such as the one shown at right.
The majority of sharks caught for their fins are the blue sharks, threshers and hammerheads of more exotic waters, but North Atlantic species, including the porbeagle, angel, shortfin mako and spiny dogfish – sold in British fish and chip shops as rock salmon – are also under threat. Shark Populations in Sharp Decline | Impact Lab
The platypus and the echidna - a nocturnal, burrowing mammal with a spiny coat, long claws, and no teeth - are the only known living members of a type of animal known as monotremes.
But apparently enamored of their own hype aura, they've spelled out ‘too cool for school’ in wracked and twisted pipe cleaners and call the tangled and spiny mess a second album.
The crocodile dragonfish is one of the stranger-looking denizens of Antarctic waters the spiny plunderfish is a bottom-dweller
Gao Ma stumbled toward it and reached but to grab a branch covered with spiny hollyhocks.
The more succulent and spiny shrubs such as spekboom and small bitterleaf, which can survive with little moisture and high temperatures, grow inland.
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That's when I saw the spiny ridge that ran the length of her back to the fishlike tail that existed where her legs should have been.
This issue contains articles on the use of dog whelks (Nucella lapillus) to produce purple dye, neolithic ornaments made from shells of the spiny oyster Spondylus gaederopus, the clausiliid snail Papillifera papillaris (by yours truly), an obituary for Nicholas Shackleton (1937-2006) and other useful bits of information on mollusks and archaeology. Archive 2006-04-01
There are 112 mammal species recorded here. including pacas (Agouti paca) and agoutis (Dasyprocta punctata), porcupines (Coendou prehensilis), spiny rats (Proechimys longicaudatus and Mesomys hispidus), hog-nosed skunks (Conepatus semistriatus), and peccaries (Tayassu pecari and T. tajacu, both locally extinct). Maranhão Babaçu forests
And not just any fish, mind you, but tasty ones, like flying fish, yellowtail and blowfish - the forbidden fugu - plus spiny, slimy things like ebi, abalone and crawfish.
The fur is coarse, spiny, and slippery, and has no underwool. 15 Agouti
Some of the cacti are extremely large and most are very spiny.
The majority of sharks caught for their fins are the blue sharks, threshers and hammerheads of more exotic waters, but North Atlantic species, including the porbeagle, angel, shortfin mako and spiny dogfish – sold in British fish and chip shops as rock salmon – are also under threat. Shark Populations in Sharp Decline | Impact Lab
Their companion, the single male bird, perched atop a tall spiny cactus. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
An orange squirrelfish flashed its spiny fins as it darted behind a bollard. See-Worthy
Several additional reptile species are near-endemics, including Drakensberg rock gecko (Afroendura niravia), giant spinytail lizard (Cordylus giganteus), and Breyer's whiptail (Tetrodactylus breyeri) (Branch 1998). Highveld grasslands
The larvae are dotted with widely scattered short sharp spines, a possible throwback to the distant relationship molas have with the spiny porcupine puffer.
Although it looks a vicious creature, the wolf eel is in fact very timid, its main diet being the spiny sea urchin, the sharp spines of which have no effect on the wolf eel's tough jaws.
Covered in corals and sponges, it is a colourful environment stacked with sea-horses, young spiny burrfish and cornetfish.
There is another genus of the hard-shell kind, which is called oyster; another of the soft-shell kind, not as yet designated by a single term, such as the spiny crawfish and the various kinds of crabs and lobsters; and another of molluscs, as the two kinds of calamary and the cuttle-fish; that of insects is different. The History of Animals
Both the Greater Weever and the Lesser Weever are capable of inflicting a sharp and painful sting from the spiny rays of the first dorsal fin.
This order of marsupials includes 2 families, the Peramelidae (bandicoots and bilbies) and Peroryctidae (spiny bandicoots, mouse bandicoot).
A caper is a biennial spiny shrub that bears a fleshy rounded leaves and big white/pink flowers
The path through an entrance pavilion (embellished by a Bertoia sculpture) opens into a magical stony garden, a fragment of desert outcrop sprouting spiny cacti and frangipani.
Brambles sent spiny stems snaking over the open surfaces, and weeds found rootholds in the gaps between frost-bitten edges, before collapsing in the dieback of autumn. Country diary: Bedfordshire
The curious frutex pluvinatus of Sinab re-occurred, together with an additional subspiny Astragaloid shrub and a small Ruta. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
The spiny lobster and sand lobster totalling about 2,600 tonnes are caught annually from the inshore waters by mechanised and non-mechanised units.
It has hitherto been the only known member of the genus with spiny oogonia, and is readily distinguished from the second such species, next to be described, by its globular and few-spored oogonia, borne on slender threads. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Spiny brown growths resembling hollow cones that form at branch tips on Colorado spruce are caused by an insect called Cooley spruce gall aphid.
In this context, Mabey's weeds - spiny restharrow, pellitory-of-the-wall or Martin's ramping fumitory - are playing a typically ambivalent role. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Members of the genus Heriaeus (spiky grass crab spider) are covered with long setae giving them a spiny appearance.
A large spiny pufferfish pops out from behind it.
There's Toad who has a sharp, spiny tongue about 15 feet long that'll jump out and encircle you and toss you up against the wall.
Humbert's (1955) southern vegetation domain was used to delineate the Spiny Thicket ecoregion, with the remaining extent of Cornet's subarid bioclimate defined as the Succulent Woodland. Madagascar succulent woodlands
The membrane behind the jawbone is essentially avascular and bleeds very little, if at all, and although I have no doubt that this procedure causes some minor discomfort for the fish, keep in mind these creatures routinely eat very spiny baitfish, so they are used to puncture wounds inside the mouth. The Fine Art of Gaffing
Here and there a solitary tree rose to break the gently rolling monotony of the veldt: spiny acacias, sword-leaved dragon trees, emerald-spired lobelias, and thick-fingered, poisonous spurges. Conan of Cimmeria
The next two cases include the remaining specimens of the spiny-finned fish. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
The Iguanidae family is only one of about 17 families of the lacertilian suborder; it includes the subfamilies of iguana iguanas (green) and spiny-tailed (black) iguanas which are abundant in the Puerto Vallarta, Mexico area. The Three Eyed Iguanas of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Large sunstars decorated the rock and I noted many types of starfish, including cushionstars, spiny starfish and blood henries.
The many reptiles include the common chuckwalla, Texas horned lizard, desert spiny lizard, and various species of rattlesnakes. Chihuahuan Semidesert Province (Bailey)
Zander are often called pikeperch as they resemble the pike with their elongated body and head, and the perch with their spiny dorsal fin.
Yet in another area hit by a recent heavy rain, the ironwood trees and the spiny ocotillos are flush with new green leaves.
Eight other species, including pacas, pacaranas, spiny rats and porcupines, also steal Brazil nuts stored by agoutis.
While hiking, canoeing, kayaking, or eating a picnic lunch, watch for Gulf Coast spiny softshell turtles, loggerhead shrikes, pileated woodpeckers, Seminole bats, and spotted salamanders.
In the brain, stimulants stunt the growth of spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens and pyramidal cells in the parietal cortex.
It is with the porcupines, however, that the spiny defensive system reaches its zenith.
Both the Greater Weever and the Lesser Weever are capable of inflicting a sharp and painful sting from the spiny rays of the first dorsal fin.
Additionally, Tokosh was found to be holding 12 different species - some threatened or endangered - including bog turtles, spotted turtles, wood turtles, stinkpot turtles, Blanding's turtles, smooth- and spiny- shelled turtles and timber rattlesnakes.
Christmas holly is usually either English holly, Ilex aquifolium, which has spiny evergreen leaves and bright-red fruit, or American holly, Ilex opaca, which is similar but has duller, less spiny leaves. An old chestnut, re-roasted
Spotted about the rocks and slope is a fairly full selection of UK starfish - common and spiny, biscuit-coloured seven-armed and brightly coloured sunstars.
A spiny, Asian tree ( Citrus limon ) widely cultivated for its yellow, egg - shaped fruit.
The rocky reefs and the small caverns formed within them are home to groupers, moray and conger eels, scorpionfish, many octopuses and the occasional spiny lobster.
Then stand it upright and slice off the spiny skin, from top to bottom, in large slices.
Don't be the straggler the predators pick off, be the hedgehog with the pointy spiny spikes - more effort than you're worth.
The araneids are distinguished by their rather short, stout legs which are very spiny in most of the genera.
We sharpened sticks with our pocketknives to throw at the ever-present lizards - giant spiny creatures that made the trees their home.
Indigenous reptiles include grey monitor lizard Varanus griseus, spiny-tailed lizard, Uromastix thomasi, venomous horned viper Cerastes cerastes and carpet viper Echis coloratus, hooded malpolon Malpolon moilensis, sandsnake Psammophis schokari and cat snake Telescopus dhara. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman
More often then not, in any SEO project, the spiny issue of homepage word-count arises in the process of optimizing a client's site.
They were spiny and long, tipped with sharp spikes.
The word "tuatara" is derived from a Maori word meaning "spiny back. CNN.com
Plants with no spines on the leaves and bracts were considered as spineless or nonspiny, according to safflower descriptors.
Other flowers present that are now scarce in Suffolk include spiny restharrow and the yellow flowered sulphur clover.
Echimyids earn their common name because most species have spiny or bristly hairs at least on their backs and rumps.
Also called balloonfish, spiny puffers belong to the Tetraodontiformes, an order of fishes known for their strange structures and odd behaviors.
The spiny, or rock, lobsters, found in warm seas of both hemispheres, are actually marine crayfish (genus Panulirus); they lack claws but have sharp spines on the carapace.
Spotted about the rocks and slope is a fairly full selection of UK starfish - common and spiny, biscuit-coloured seven-armed and brightly coloured sunstars.
They all came to the meeting -- bream, and perch, and roach, and dace, and gudgeon; yes, and the little ersh with his spiny back. Old Peter's Russian Tales
The Agama lizard's head, neck and thighs are covered with spiny scales.
Spines at the base of the tongue grind against spiny ridges on the palate to masticate food.
Right in the middle, covering the short spiny grass, was a huge, brilliantly white Colosseum that had seen better days, but still stood sturdy and still.
Characteristic small mammals include southern plains woodrat (Neotoma micropus), and Mexican spiny pocket mouse (Liomys irroratus). Tamaulipan mezquital
In their desert habitats their diet consists of spiny cactus, yucca pods, creosote bush, cholla, pinyon nuts, seeds, prickly pear, and any available green vegetation.
There is a possible foreign body issue (i.e., risk for infection) if spikes from scorpionfish, stonefish, lionfish or spiny dogfish remain in the victim. Fish poisonings and envenomations
Cuvier, with not a few of the ichthyologists who preceded him, arranged the fishes into two distinct series, -- the Cartilaginous and Osseous; and these last he mainly divided into the hard or spiny-finned fishes, and the soft or joint-finned fishes. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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But the cusp, cuspis, spiny or spearlike point of a thirteenth century illumination, is not in the least necessary to transfix the parchment. Val d'Arno
The rocky reefs and the small caverns formed within them are home to groupers, moray and conger eels, scorpionfish, many octopus and the occasional spiny lobster.
Among the fossils found here are acanthodians - the so-called "spiny sharks" which are thought to be the oldest vertebrates to possess true teeth - and what Blais and colleagues consider to be a chondrichthyan, or an early member of the group of cartilaginous fish which includes sharks, skates, and rays today. Wired Top Stories
In the three-year period ending with 2009, the hook-and-line groundfish fleet reported catching a total of 4,622 sharks, not including the spiny dogfish, which is the subject of a commercial fishery. Canada.com Top Stories
SNAIL'S TALES: Big brown beetle with long antennae and a spiny pronotum skip to main Big brown beetle with long antennae and a spiny pronotum
In the striatum, we recorded two populations of medium spiny neurons (MSNs) after their antidromic identification. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Spiny clotbur has upright growth habit, long shiny dark green leaves, cactuslike spines and seeds like cocklebur (which it is related to).

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