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spinies

spinies is the plural 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 spinies

What is spinies the plural of?
Spinies is the plural of spiny.

Words near spinies in the dictionary

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

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