Her six powerful legs are spined to help her, no doubt, in climbing over the smooth surfaces of flowers and twigs.
This is a long-spined form, and differs also in the shape of the stem, which is oblong, rather than globose.
A small silvery-spined kind has recently been found near the snow line in Chili.
On the Florida Reef and off the rocky shores of California one of the most conspicuous among the rock-living animals is the black, long-spined Echinus.
Short Spined Strawberry Cactus (Echinocereus Bonkerae) Southeastern Arizona We are nearing the beautiful Pinal Mountains in southeastern Arizona, nearing also the end of our journey over the broad expanse of the Arizona-California desert.
Purple Spined Visnagita (Echinocactus erectocentrus) Southeastern Arizona Purple Spined Visnagita is a gayly tinted beauty which grows only in limited areas.
The little sculpin, or grubby, of the New England coast is Myoxocephalus æneus, and the larger eighteen-spined sculpin is Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus.
The Stickleback's Nest The three-spined and two-spined sticklebacks live equally well in fresh or salt water; the larger fifteen-spined stickleback is entirely marine.
The big, ratchet-voiced cactus wren likes to build its nest in the densely spined cholla, and the packrat often piles pricklypear pads in its nest area.
This fiercely spined agave lives nowhere else in the world.
Just as the pike's attack is at its height, the Rasper suddenly raises his twelve-spined dorsal fin.
Hertwig regards this species only as a four-spined variety of his three-spined Plagiacantha abietina; but a specimen, observed by me in Corfu, exhibited all the characters of Tetraplagia.
This wild land, ribbed and spined by one of the greatest mountain chains in the world, appears to have been the last habitation of the greater beasts of the older ages.
Upon this pampa was no firewood at all, nothing save rolling grass which pricked you with minute thorns, so that a walk through it left your putties spined like a porcupine.
Second only in clinical importance is the little four-spined strongyle (S.
The next day I examined him, and found myriads of the four-spined strongyles, a large number being encysted.
Podisus and allied genera, as the spined soldier bug (Podius spinosus).
From the former it is readily distinguished by having minutely spined megascleres, green corpuscles, slender gemmule-spicules with short spines and no free microscleres.
Skeleton-spicules slender, pointed, feebly curved, irregularly roughened or minutely spined all over the surface.
Protected in their spined shells, which they captured from the schools of porcupine fish that swarmed in Penguin Deep, they gathered sea vegetation from the higher levels and trapped sea creatures.
But now and then I saw a spined monster that was queerly unlike its fellows.
The well-known tinker or ten-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus pungitius) is one of our indigenous fish which constructs a nest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: acute; barbed; horned; horny; pointed; pronged; spiked; spined; spiny; tapered; tapering; tined; toothed
