spiny
adj/ˈspaɪni/
Etymology From spine + -y.
1
Covered in spines or thorns.
2
Troublesome; difficult or vexing.
- The spiney desarts of scholastic philosophy1727, William Warburton, Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Miracles:
3
Like a spine in shape; slender.
- And, as in well-growne woods, on trees, cold ſpinie Graſhoppers / Sit chirping, […][1611?], Homer, “The Third Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 40:
- Derived terms
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