"spiny" značenje u engleski leksikon

1. Abounding with difficulties, obstacles, or annoyances; thorny
2. Covered or armed with spines; broadly; bearing spines, prickles, or thorns
3. Slender and pointed like a spine

Množina: spiny anteaters

Alternate name for echidna.

Množina: spiny dogfish

Small bottom-dwelling dogfishes.

Množina: spiny lizards

Any of numerous lizards with overlapping ridged pointed scales; of North and Central America.

Množina: spiny lobsters

1. Large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters; SYN. langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish.
2. Warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California; SYN. langouste, rock lobster, crayfish.

Množina: spiny puffers

Puffers having rigid or erectile spines.

Množina: spiny softshells

River turtle of western United States with a warty shell; prefers quiet water; SYN. Trionyx spiniferus.

Množina: spiny talinums

Low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States; SYN. Talinum spinescens.

Množina: spiny-finned fish

A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays; SYN. acanthopterygian.

Množina: spiny-headed worms

Any of a small phylum (Acanthocephala) of unsegmented parasitic worms that have a proboscis bearing hooks by which attachment is made to the intestinal wall of the host.