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spiny

adjective as in pointed

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“Then make sure to cool it immediately to prevent holdover temperature from overcooking the spiny little beast!”

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The closing ceremony featured a spiny, glistening figure, the “Golden Voyager,” who arrived from the night sky.

The deadly wave, which may soon threaten these spiny, slow-moving invertebrates globally, appears to have begun half a world away.

Whatever its evolutionary affinities, these spiny arachnids appear to come from a time when arachnids were experimenting with a range of different body plans.

In 2023, Edward Stanley was conducting routine CT scans of spiny mice and was surprised to find their tails were covered with an internal coat of bony plates, called osteoderms.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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