spiny
spahy nee
- a having spines
- s having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
- To shield itself from patrolling immune cells, the cancer cell sprouts spiny armor like a sea urchin's.
- Usually, they would venture inside a cinderblock wall where the spiny desert scrub had been smoothed over in preparation for a housing development that never materialized.
- The largely flat, scrub-covered piece of real estate, with its occasional groves of cottonwoods, spiny mesquite and clumps of sacaton grass and desert broom, seems to offer few .