Properly called the spiny dogfish or spurdog (Squalus acanthias), the chippy's favoured shark is more usually labelled as rock salmon. From Wordnik.com. [UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World] Reference
A kind of spiny anteater not rare in places like Madagascar. From Wordnik.com. [What's in a name?] Reference
I believe it is now thought that the spider of the Scriptures was a kind of spiny lizard called the Gecko. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
A. patulus Bertol.) has a prominent terminal spike, a more "spiny" look and often has a prostrate habit. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
It has a black collar with very sharp spiny scales. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
He simply couldn't feel the spiny sting of life's ironies anymore. From Wordnik.com. [Flooding the Memory River] Reference
The spiny-leaved varieties are valuable for sub-tropical gardening. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
Palms are very numerous, but they are generally small and horridly spiny. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
The delicate "pin cushion" gathered in clusters of myriad small spiny balls. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
The spiny critters like to be petted -- along the quills, please -- but don't demand it. From Wordnik.com. [A Hedgehog In Your Hedgerow?] Reference
They are large in size and have a crest of spiny scales running along the neck and back. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
It is funny-looking — bottom-heavy, spiny, rough to the touch, with a bushy, pompous crown. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Isabella Eats a Pineapple and Misses the Jews] Reference
Stem short, ridged, spiny; calyx tube of the flower large, bell-shaped; ovary and fruit scaly. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
Joints club-shaped, 4 in. to 6 in. long, very spiny, the cushions elevated on ridge-like tubercles. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
All about them was sand, with here and there a spiny shrub standing up stiff and erect and solitary. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Within a few seconds the shell was invaded by a whole school of spiny-tailed fish, that ate greedily. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Then a mountainside covered with spiny growths that, from a distance, seemed half cactus and half pine. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Long lines of tomatoes, rinds of squash, plain spiny vines cycle in it, I cannot remember all of the others. From Wordnik.com. [Here] Reference
A hardy border plant with long spiny foliage, and bearing from July to September large light blue flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening for the Million] Reference
We encounter each other in words, words spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed, words to consider, reconsider. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2009] Reference
Osiris, or the sun; they also traced a resemblance in the spiny projections on its head to the rays of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
They all prefer rich, damp woods, and because of their graceful outline and spiny-toothed lobes are very attractive. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Looking at the flattened, spiny stem, it seems impossible that such large, handsome flowers should be produced by it. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
The development of the spines in this genus is different from what takes place in all other spiny plants of this order. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
Gland spines: in Coccidae; spiny appendages, each of which is supplied with a single gland whose opening is at the tip. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
The ribs are longer, and the whole plant stronger and generally more spiny; though, on the whole, comparatively smooth. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The surface of the fruit is thickly set with spiny nipples, and has an appearance very unlike that of the Common Cucumber. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The curved, gray seeds, which are rough, wrinkled and somewhat spiny, retain their germinating power for about three years. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
For some years, while the plant is young, the upright growing stem is covered and completely hidden by very large spiny leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
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