| spiny | having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc. |
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| spiny | burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites |
| spiny | New Guinea echidnas |
| spiny | small bottom-dwelling dogfishes |
| spiny | any of numerous lizards with overlapping ridged pointed scales |
| spiny | desert lizard that feeds on ants |
| spiny | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters |
| spiny | warm-water lobsters without claws |
| spiny | puffers having rigid or erectile spines |
| spiny | river turtle of western United States with a warty shell |
| spiny | low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die |
| spiny | a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |