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Definitions of spiny
  1. adjective
    having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
  2. adjective
    having spines

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  • perch spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
  • gooseberry spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
  • logwood spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye
  • squalus spiny dogfishes
  • jujube spiny tree having dark red edible fruits
  • forestiera neomexicana spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits
  • quail brush spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico
  • salt tree spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms
  • diodontidae spiny puffers
  • pickeringia montana spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California
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