Sentence examples for spiny from inspiring English sources
'spiny' is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used to describe something that is covered in or characterized by spines or thorns, or anything that is prickly or difficult to handle. Example: The spiny cactus was a beautiful addition to the desert landscape, but its sharp needles made it a challenging plant to tend to.
adjective
Covered in spines or thorns
This protected swath of steppe and low mountain ranges is starkly beautiful, with the coirón grasses and spiny bushes providing a habitat for rhea, tinamou, pigeon and burrowing owl.
The immature sugar cane grows up past their shoulders, rows and rows of it, the narrow leaves forming spiny corridors whose ends are so distant they are impossible to see.
Prawns in Vietnam tend to be big spiny monsters that are halfway to langoustine, but there's no reason you shouldn't use smaller north Atlantic prawns if you'd prefer – although the large, vibrantly coloured exotic versions do look prettier in the wrappers.
BY MID-MORNING, the sun has burned off the early, misleading, puffs of cloud and starts to roast the caatinga, the spiny scrub that stretches, fawn-grey, without end across the backlands of north-east Brazil.
The plant was small, with spiny, silvery leaves, woody stems and blue flowers.
The American Embassy, with its spiny outer shell, looks like a hedgehog crossed with a fortress and surrounded by a moat.
THE worst of the hazards travellers encounter in the mountainous rainforests of southern India is not the elephants, though they occasionally kill people; nor the creepy-crawlies, though the sudden appearance of a foot-long red-legged millipede can startle; nor the spiny-stemmed palms, though they shred unwary walkers' clothes.
Tetraodontiform (order Tetradontiformes), any member of a group of primarily tropical marine fishes that are closely related to the perciforms (the typical advanced spiny-rayed fishes) that evolved during the Eocene Period of the Cenozoic Era, about 50 million years ago.
Female sleepy lizards and those of the Baudin Island spiny-tailed skink (Egernia stokesii aethiops) recognize their own offspring on the basis of chemical signals.
Although they are usually fish parasites, spiny-headed worms also parasitize amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
The body of a spiny-headed worm is divided into a proboscis and an elongated cylindrical trunk.
