单词 | spined |
释义 | spinedadj. 1. a. Having, provided or covered with, spines; spinous, spiny. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having spines pikeda1398 prickled1578 spinose1661 thorny1711 prickly1774 spinous1774 spined1777 spinaceous1875 1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. v. 4 Claws angulated; second joint spined. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 274 Feet..not strongly ciliated or spined. 1856 A. R. Wallace in Ann. Nat. Hist. July 27 A female Mias, on a durian tree, kept up..a continuous shower of branches and of the heavy, spined fruits. ?1870 P. M. Duncan Transformations Insects iv. 88 Their legs are well developed; the hind ones are particularly strong, and the others are spined. b. In the specific names of various animals, fishes, etc., as spined caterpillar, spined cicada, spined loach, spined rat, spined sea-screw, spined shark, spined sparus (see quots.). ΚΠ 1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 416 Spined Sparus, Sparus Spinifer. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 381 The Spined Loche Groundling. Botia tænia. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 496/2 Echimys, Geoff. (Spined Rats). 1840 W. Swainson & W. E. Shuckard Hist. Insects 64 One of the spined caterpillars of Brazil. 1840 W. Swainson & W. E. Shuckard Hist. Insects 130 The Centronotidæ, or spined cicadas, remarkable for..the spines upon their bodies. 1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 49 Dexamine spinosa. Spined Sea-Screw. 1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 464 Of the Spined Sharks, or Spinacidæ, there are a good many species. 2. Having a spine or spinal column. ΚΠ 1891 in Cent. Dict. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < |
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