adjective. Resembling a spine or thorn.

adjective. Having spines or similar projections; spiny.

In zoology and anatomy:

Having spines; spiny; spinigerous or spiniferous.

Shaped like a spine; spiniform; having the character of a spine; sharp or pointed: as, a spinous process of bone. See spinose.

In botany, same as spinose.

adjective. Spinose; thorny.

adjective. Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike.

adjective. the dorsal process of the neural arch of a vertebra; a neurapophysis.

adjective. Having many spines.

adjective. Of a person, difficult to deal with, prickly.

adjective. Of a subject, providing many difficulties, thorny.

adjective. shaped like a spine or thorn

adjective. having spines

"If I had so sweet a place, I would plant brambles, briers, blackthorn, furze, crataegus, every kind of spinous growth, inside my gates, and never let anybody lop them."

spinous foramen  spinous process of a vertebra  spinous process of the sphenoid  spinous rat  spinous shark  

pointed  

anterior-posterior  anti-lock  bloomless  briery  cost-prohibitive  

spine  spinelike  spinose  thorny