spiny – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
spiny
adj.
thorny, spiked, covered with pointy projections; resembling a spine; difficult, complex, troublesome
Spiny
Spiny may refer to:
- Spiny, Poland, a village in the district of Gmina Pakoslawice, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland
- Spiny (Mario), a fictional four-legged creature in Super Mario Bros, often thrown by Lakitus
spiny
Adjective
1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
(synonym) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, thorny
(similar) armed
Spiny
(n.)
See Spinny.
(a.)
Like a spine in shape; slender.
(a.)
Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.
(a.)
Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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spiny
Synonyms and related words:
Herculean, abstruse, acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, arduous, barbed, brutal, complex, cornuted, critical, cusped, cuspidate, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, hispid, horned, horny, intricate, jawbreaking, knotted, knotty, laborious, mean, mucronate, needle-pointed, needle-sharp, nettlesome, no picnic, not easy, operose, pointed, prickly, pronged, rigorous, rough, rugged, set with thorns, severe, sharp-pointed, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous, steep, strenuous, tapered, tapering, thorny, ticklish, tined, toilsome, toothed, tough, tricky, unbated, uphill, wicked
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
