It is generally believed that a pike will not attack a full-grown Perch: he is deterred from so doing by the spiny or dorsal fin on the back, which this fish always erects at the approach of an enemy.
The genus, or rather family of Epeira, is here characterized by many singular forms; some species have pointed coriaceous shells, others enlarged and spiny tibiæ.
He adds, however, that most of the spinyspiders are common, and that their colors make them conspicuous; just as butterflies that are protected by an odor are common and bright-colored.
A new pocket gopher (Thomomys) and a new spiny pocket mouse (Liomys) from Michoacan, Mexico.
Calyx-teeth acute to awl-shape, but not spiny (3-10 dm.
Revision of the spinypocket mice (genera Heteromys and Liomys) N.
The fruit consists of about forty nuts, enclosed in a rough, spiny husk, of a globular form, produced on a short footstalk growing from the axis of the leaves, the whole bunch weighing from twenty to thirty pounds.
The same may be said of certain Squamipinnes, another family of Acanthopterygii, whose stout bodies are brightly coloured, and have very sharp, spinyrays in their dorsal and anal fins.
In Lachesis the caudal rattle is represented by a series of 10 or 12 rows of spiny scales, which are slightly hooked at the tips.
The spiny rays of the dorsal fin of Synanceia are sharp-pointed, stout in the middle, and provided on each side with a small canal hollowed out in the thickness of the spine.
Near their extremity there opens a small canal, which communicates with the culs-de-sac situated at the base of the spiny rays, which produce a venomous secretion.
The poison-apparatus of Scorpæna is situated in the spiny rays of the dorsal and anal fins.
The woodpeckers and creepers use their spiny tails as supports while stationary or in motion; not so the nuthatches, which are sufficiently nimble on their feet to stand or glide without converting their tails into braces.
The larvæ of genus 98, Aganisthos, also appear to be somewhat spiny (see Burmeister’s figure of A.
Many species of caterpillars which are spiny when adult appear to be spineless, or only slightly hairy when young.
The spiny covering thus appears to be a character acquired at a comparatively recent period in the phyletic development.
The skeleton-spicules are spiny and rather stout, the species being strongly developed at the two ends.
Given moist soil and greater humidity of atmosphere to grow in, spiny plants at once show a tendency to grow taller, to branch and become leafy.
The femur, III, is large and strong, too, and it has a row of sharp, spiny teeth down the inside.
If can shut the tibia close to the femur, the spiny teeth of the one locking into the spiny teeth of the other, and forming a terrible trap for the insects that are so unfortunate as to get caught in its merciless grip.
But they hold up their spiny front legs and catch insects, and they grow and moult in the usual way.
Since, however, this parachute is absent in some members of the family, the most distinctive character is the presence of a double row of spiny scales on the under surface of the tail, which apparently aid in climbing.
The leaves of the involucre are spiny in thistles and in teazel (Dipsacus), and hooked in burdock.
One of the terriers disinterred a spiny hedgehog from its warm, leafy retreat, and "Prickles" probably felt much mystified to find himself in a world of dazzling whiteness.
At times squirrels are killed in hundreds, but they do not grace the larder, neither do the spiny hedgehogs.
The hybrid has undivided leaves which are more spiny than those of the European parent, and which are not deciduous like them, but persist during the winter, a peculiarity inherited from the Mahonia.
This is on account of the nature of its body, for it has a head many times as large as the rest of its body, and spiny and very rough.
Sphenocephalus, with four anal spines, is found in the chalk, as are also species of Acrogaster and Pycnosterinx, these being the earliest of fishes with distinctly spiny fins.
The cranium shows only a trace of spiny ridges, and the five spines on the preoperculum are not very different from those seen in some species of bass.
In twenty minutes they were separated from the wagons by a barrier of sandstone several hundred feet high, and culminating in a sharp ridge or frill of rocky points, not unlike the spiny back of a John Dory.
The only vegetation was a spiny cactus, clinging closely to the rocks, wearing their grayish and yellowish colors, lending no verdure to the scene, and harmonizing with its thorny inhospitality.
It has been caught in the curious basket-like trap which the dragon makes with its spiny legs all held together, and it is being crushed and chewed by the great jaws.
And there, crouched beneath a bush like some storybook monster is an enormous spiny lizard.
Such are the Australian spiny anteater and the duck mole.
It consists of a bony framework, the vertebral column which protects the spinal cord and certain attached bones, the ribs, with other spiny bones to which the unpaired fins are attached.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
