There are eight short spines on each side between the long spines and the eyes; then come recesses for the eyes, and between the eyes are four unequal teeth and a small spine underneath.
There is also a row of hollow triangular spines obliquely encircling the base of the shell.
The prominent blunt spines which cover its surface are arranged in a somewhat regular net-like order, and the sharp-edged margins have an even row of larger spines of the same form.
The body is nearly as long as it is broad, with five prominent spines on each side.
The color is yellowish-red, lighter underneath; the spines are darker.
It has slender spines with distinct longitudinal rows of serrations, and thespines are grouped in rosette-like forms over the small spherical body.
The ambulacra are small spines without suckers, which emanate from the sides or margins of the arms and do not serve for walking.
The antennae are broad at the base and covered with small spines on the sides and upper surface, and the eye-stalks are also spiny.
The spines of the starfish are caught in the [pg208] tangle, and often hundreds are brought up in one haul and are then killed by steaming.
Spines very brittle, and from one to two and a half inches long; jet-black.
The upper surface of the body and claws is dark green in color, the lower surface is dingy white, the feet blue, and the tips of the spines reddish.
On the upper side of the disk the spines all turn toward the periphery.
He is trying to unroll the hedgehog, who, so soon as he felt the approach of the enemy, curled himself into a ball, with the sharp spines sticking out everywhere.
But the older dogs sometimes learn the trick: they then roll the hedgehog over with a paw, touching it gently, so as not to run the spines in, till the depression comes uppermost where the hedgehog has tucked his head inwards.
Even the settlers' dogs exhibit the same strong fancy for hunting porcupines, but are not so successful in coming off without injury; indeed, they often issue from the combat covered over with spines sticking in their flesh.
Although the servants instantly extracted the spines from the mouth of the dog, his head was terribly pierced, and it was several weeks before he recovered.
The spines of one species (Echinocactus visnaga) are used by the Mexicans as toothpicks.
These plants, which are more or less succulent, are usually protected from the ravages of animal life by a formidable array of spines and prickles.
And from such rare examples we learn just what teeth and spines go with one another, and sometimes find that one fish has received names enough for an entire school.
Now and then some specimen comes to light that escaped the thousand and one accidents to which such things were exposed, and that not only shows the teeth and spines but the faint imprint of the body and fins as well.
The Museum of Comparative Zooelogy has a large collection of these ancient vertebrates, and there is a considerable number of fine teeth and spines of Carboniferous sharks in the United States National Museum.
The tail spines varied in length, according to the species, from eight or nine inches to nearly three feet, and some of them have a diameter of six inches at the base.
Be it remembered, too, that these plates and spines were doubtless covered with horn, so that they were even longer in life than as we now see them.
She has four straight spines at the end of her body, and after she has bored a hole with her body she guides the eggs in with the four spines.
With these Mrs. Locust bores a hole in the ground, and then with these same spines she guides the bundles of eggs into the hole and covers them up with a gummy stuff.
Or are the spines on the back of the iguana indicated on this vessel?
The fourth is the iguana prepared as food, recognizable by the spines on its back, as on page 25b.
It has a long, tubular canal, with a row of long, slender spines along both of its borders, and rows of similar spines covering the body of the shell.
The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds.
It is destitute of large spines on the body and tail.
In some cases, several stiff rays or spines replace the prominences[212].
Armed with sharp spineslike a hedgehog or Echinus.
When the stipes below the feeler has a row of minute spines set like the teeth of a comb.
When a surface is rough with mucros, spinesand tubercles intermixed.
The periphery of the body of this vessel is encircled by a number of nodes and noded projections, which represent the heads, tails, and spines of two crab-like animals.
It is represented with a wide mouth displaying teeth, two spines or horns upon the end of the snout, and fins upon the back and sides.
These devices represent the spinesand scales of the creature’s skin.
Its spines are capable of inflicting painful wounds.
Owing to their ugly appearance their spines are rumored to give a poisonous wound.
Bur medium; spines rather long and thin for one of this group, set on a thin husk.
Burs large, spines long and strong but not as stout as in some of the closely related varieties.
Burs large, round; spines long, branching, but not as coarse as those of Comfort.
Burs large to extra large for a variety of this species, with medium low branching spineson a very thin, parchment-like husk.
Burs with a very thin husk; spines short, widely branching from a short stem.
Burs of immense size; spines an inch or more in length, from a stout, woody, irregularly branching stem, resting on the moderately thin husk.
Burs thickly covered with sharp, branching spines a half inch long or less, from a fleshy green envelope, becoming hard and somewhat woody; opening by four valves or divisions when mature.
Burs medium, slightly flattened on top; spines medium, short, almost sessile, as shown in Fig.
The most distinguishing feature of Priscacara is the series of strong, stout spines supporting the anal and dorsal fins.
These spines may have acted as cut-waters for better swimming and/or they may have protected Priscacara from its more voracious relatives.
It takes in all those of a trailing or erect growing habit, having spines in clusters, solitary, or spineless.
The flowers are very small and simple, spines about half an inch long, leaves fleshy and elliptical.
Melocactus, seven species, and are those that are roundish with deep and many angles, with spines in clusters on the top of the angle.
Opuntias, about forty species, and are those whose branches are in joints flatly oblong, or ovate, spines solitary, or in clusters.
We question this species, and are inclined to believe that it is the former, only when the plants are newly raised from seed, the spines and leaves are red, changing to green as they become advanced in age.
In the cat, the iliac spines are but slightly marked; the result is that the iliac crest is almost confounded with the inferior and superior borders of the ilium.
In the dog, the distance which separates the anterior iliac spines is less than that which separates the ischia (Fig.
A few deflexed spines in a cluster leave the surface where a tiny awl-shaped leaf and a tuft of reddish brown hairs are likewise usually found.
That such spines protect the plants which bear them from the ravages of grazing cattle is, of course, an additional motive for their presence.
He points out that there is complete homology between the scales or spines of reptiles and the feathers of birds.
The swimming apparatus of this fish is not much developed, and reduced to a number of spines erect from the back and the belly.
For instance, the Hop, which is a twiner, has reflexed hooks as large as those of the Galium; some other twiners have stiff reflexed hairs; and Dipladenia has a circle of blunt spines at the bases of its leaves.
The plant might have been left, one would have thought, to climb by the aid of its spines alone, like our brambles.
If they had possessed this power, and had been capable of twining, they would have been placed in the class of Twiners; for some twiners are furnished with spines or hooks, which aid them in their ascent.
Tarsal fold strong; thoracic fold heavy; webbing on feet extending to middle of penultimate phalanx of fourth toe; distinct white stripe above anus; cluster of largo spines on thumb in breeding males, H.
If small nuptial spines, moderately webbed feet, and absence of a well-defined thoracic fold are considered to be less advanced than large nuptial spines and a strong thoracic fold, as in H.
He gave him some tunas from which he had not cleaned off the spines, and as the spines hurt the Coyote he became very angry and wanted to eat the Grey Fox.
The globular heads are so buoyant as to float lightly on the water, and the uppermost spines acting as sails, they are thus carried across narrow estuaries to continue the process of embanking on newly-formed sand bars.
The spinesof its dorsal fin prevented its descent, whilst those of the gill-covers equally forbade its return.
The position of its fins, and the spines on its gill-covers, might assist its journey upwards, but the same apparatus would prove anything but a facility in steadying its journey down.
The horned toad, while not poisonous, is protected by having horny spines upon its head and back.
The long fleshy leaves with spines at the ends are clustered at the surface of the ground, and from their centre, at blooming time, rises a tall flower stalk.
Another species of the cholla is small, reaching but a foot or two above the ground, but this and other low forms so cover the ground in places that one has to be constantly on guard to keep from running the spines into his feet.
Marginal spines as in the adult, but no dorsal spines.
On the middle of each segment a transverse row of small slender conical spines not set closely together.
On the skin are several scattered, circular, very minute spinnerets; the stigmatic spines are long and conspicuous, and along the edge runs a row of conical hairs or spines.
On the edge of the body a row of conical spines (spinnerets).
When the insect is alive these spines are often agglutinated with cottony secretion so as to give the appearance of a short fringe.
Along the edge of the body is a row of sharp lanceolate spines set closely together, and the spiracular spines are long and conspicuous.
On the edge of the body a row of conical spines set far apart, and on the dorsum four other longitudinal rows.
Leaves usually in threes, rarely in twos; scales of cones with spines or prickles.
Trees or shrubs with alternate, odd-pinnate leaves, havingspines on each side of the stalk in place of stipules.
In these three species therefore, apart from mutations, the northern forms all show a greater development of spines on the scales.
It is supposed that the spines and perhaps the sharp teeth are used for holding the female, but it seems equally probable that these structures are really used by the males in fighting with each other.
The surface is rough from the presence of long slender spines on the scales.
Yarrell, that thesespines are developed only in the breeding season.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: armor; cortex; harness; mail; panoply; shell; shield
