Thorax: fulvo-hyaline, with a dark fuscous border at the apex; the knees, tibiæ and tarsi reddish-yellow; the two latter spinose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

The metathorax transversely and rather finely rugose, the truncation more strongly striated; the scutellum shining; the wings subhyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the tibiæ with scattered spines, the tarsi spinose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

Thorax and pectus tawny, the former globose, with a black dorsal spot; abdomen tawny at the base; anterior legs testaceous, hind femora spinose beneath; wings grey, darker at the tips; stigma and veins black; halteres testaceous, with piceous tips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

Head, thorax, and legs black; the two former closely punctured and thinly covered with short cinereous pubescence; the metathorax with the punctures running into transverse striæ in the middle; the sides of the thorax and the legs with a fine silky silvery-white pile; the tibiæ and tarsi strongly spinose; wings fusco-hyaline; abdomen entirely red, smooth and shining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

Similarly, the spinose fin-rays were to have been termed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

Madagascar; both have a very short beak, and the second abdominal ring spinose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference

Mauritius alone, I do not call to mind a single species that is a spinose endemic tree or shrub.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

It is recognized by its oblique cones, conspicuously spinose, indefinitely persistent and very serotinous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

(Fig. 209.) Shell thick, or orbicular-cordate squamose; the radiating ribs spinose, strong, tubular or folded; intervening space coarsely punctate and rugose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference

Similarly, the spinose fin-rays were to have been termed "acanthonemes," the branching and multiarticulate "arthronemes," and those of the more elementary and "adipose fin" type "protonemes": and had he lived to complete the task, I question whether it would not have excelled his earlier achievements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley]

A splendid green iridescence, with violet tints towards their base; the legs thickly spinose and pubescent; the calcaria simple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

The central caudal lobe continued hard and calcareous to the end, as ASTACUS FRANKLINII of Van Diemen’s Land, and A. MADAGASCARIENSIS of Madagascar; both have a very short beak, and the second abdominal ring spinose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1] Reference

The branches are more or less downy or spinose; "the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

Leaving out palms, the trees and shrubs of that part of the world are exceptionally non-spinose. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

Dumeril and Bibron) but the sides of the head near the ears are spinose, and the nape is distinctly crested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference

Conelets mucronate or spinose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

Fig. 285, Conelet and its enlarged spinose scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

(3) A third bladder included a larger organism, which was so much decayed that I could only make out that it was spinose or hairy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference