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Synonyms for spiny

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Synonyms for spiny

full of sharp needlelike protuberances

so replete with interlocking points and complications as to be painfully irritating

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Synonyms for spiny

having spines

Synonyms

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

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The first specimen of Balkan spiny loach in the River Jihlava was caught on 19 July 2016 below the Medlov weir.
Numerous studies have been conducted on the reproduction of the spiny dogfish worldwide (Kaganovskaia, 1937; Yamamoto and Kibezaki, 1950; Jensen, 1965; Ketchen, 1972; Hanchet, 1988; Avsar, 2001; Chatzispyrou and Megalofonou, 2005; Di Giacomo et al., 2009; Capape and Reynaud, 2011; Gracan et al., 2013).
Regular spiny lobster season runs August 6 through March 31.
The spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) is a small demersal shark of temperate continental shelf areas worldwide.
Zoo director Frankie Hobro said: "We were delighted to have courtship behaviour from our new spiny seahorses this season, but we weren't really expecting any breeding success this soon.
The first type (GuSI; Figure 1) was a modification of a design previously used in, among other places, Baja California, Mexico to successfully monitor postlarval California Spiny Lobster abundances (Arteaga-Rios et al.
Once a spiny water flea is introduced to a clean water body there is no way to eradicate it, according to the aquatic biologists who have studied it since its discovery three decades ago.
We captured Spiny Dogfish of both sexes, and based on their size distribution it is likely that they were individuals reaching or at sexual maturity (Jones and Geen 1977).
Thus, the objectives of this study were to evaluate the relative importance of ctenophores as prey for spiny dogfish in terms of their energetic value and to provide bounds of probable magnitudes of abundance for these ctenophores in the NEUS.
A prominent tuft of spiny hair on the back, a white tail tip and three pairs of teats represent the unique set of characteristics describing a new genus of rat which has been discovered in the Moluccan province of Indonesia.
Spiny and short-snouted seahorses are our native species and live in eelgrass in Studland Bay, Dorset.
It is the first spiny turtle to ever be bred in the UK.
The ban will be extended under Honduran legislation and the Regional Regulations for Fisheries Ordinance of the spiny lobster (Panulirus argus), said the Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG) in Honduras.
The section devoted to identification of crayfish relies on division of the species into what the author calls 'giant', 'intermediate' and 'dwarf' spiny crayfish, each group characterised by about 20 morphological, ecological and behavioural features, some overlapping.