Word.ws English Dictionary

spinigerous

spinigerous adjective: bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.

Adjective

spinigerous (not comparable)

  1. Bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.
    • spinigerous appendage
    • spinigerous setae

Origin of spinigerous

From Latin spiniger, from spina (“spine”) + gerere (“to bear”).

Words that rhyme with spinigerous

17 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about spinigerous

What does spinigerous mean?
Spinigerous means bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.
What part of speech is spinigerous?
Spinigerous is an adjective.

Words near spinigerous in the dictionary

  1. spinifex termites
  2. spinifexbird
  3. spinifexbirds
  4. spinifexes
  5. spiniform
  6. spinigerous
  7. spinigrade
  8. spiniken
  9. spinikens
  10. spinily
  11. spininess

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spinigerous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “spinigerous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spinigerous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.