adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a spiny lobster
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also infesting this domain are the dramatically spiny sea urchins.
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Although they are not completely spiny , they are nevertheless prickly enough to repel all but the most desperate of predators.
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Butterflyfish have a spiny dorsal fin, which they are quite prepared to use in attack.
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Gao Ma stumbled toward it and reached but to grab a branch covered with spiny hollyhocks.
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It is with the porcupines, however, that the spiny defensive system reaches its zenith.
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The spiny newt protects itself by squirting poison into the mouths of predators.
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The city lies against and below two short spiny ribs of hill.
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The two kinds of lobsters are the true lobster and the spiny or rock lobster.