Of an animal or plant: having sharp points, spines, or prickles; spiny (cf. picked, adj.2 compounds). Now chiefly in fixed compounds: see piked do…

Esp. of a plant or animal: covered in or set with prickles; prickly.

Zoology. = spinous, adj. 3.

Of an animal (or a part of one): Having thorn-like organs or appendages; spiny. See also compounds 1.

Of an animal, plant, object, surface, etc.: having or bearing prickles; full of or covered with prickles, or prickle-like projections.

Armed or covered with spines or slender sharp-pointed excrescences; spinigerous. Chiefly Zoology.

Having, provided or covered with, spines; spinous, spiny.

Furnished with spines.