Spinous

//ˈspaɪnəs//

Synonyms for "spinous" (18 found)

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

This can be a spinous question.

Source: tatoeba (1337077)

Holly (Ilex aquifolium) is a small evergreen tree, with shining, irregular, and spinous leaves, and white flowers which grow in clusters round the branches, and are succeeded by small red berries.

Source: tatoeba (12206733)

The cetaceous tribes have their bones entirely resembling those of quadrupeds, thick, white, and filled with marrow : those of the spinous kind, on the contrary, have small slender bones, with points resembling thorns, and generally solid throughout.

Source: wiktionary

The organs are simple and spinous, the spines small distally on the organ, larger proximally.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.