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spinier

spinier is the comparative form of spiny.

Meaning of spiny

Adjective

spiny (comparative spinier, superlative spiniest)

  1. Covered in spines or thorns.
    Synonyms:
    thorny, prickly
  2. Troublesome; difficult or vexing.
    • The spiney desarts of scholastic philosophy1727, William Warburton, Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Miracles
    Synonyms:
    thorny, prickly
  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

Questions about spinier

What is spinier the comparative form of?
Spinier is the comparative form of spiny.

Words near spinier in the dictionary

  1. Spingo
  2. spingoid
  3. spings
  4. spinicaudatan
  5. spinicaudatans
  6. spinier
  7. spinies
  8. spiniest
  9. spiniferous
  10. spinifex
  11. spinifex pigeon

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