Crossword-Solution: SPINOSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spinose | a. | Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPINOSE | anagram | INPOSSE, SPIESON |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SPINOSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Armed like a porcupine | 1 answer |
| Armed with sharp points. | 1 answer |
| like a porcupine | 3 answers |
| Thorny | 11 answers |
| Prickly ___ | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZMACE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPINOSE (5)
The branches are more or less downy or spinose; “the Hedgehog has probably derived its name from the singular bristly condition of its shoots and fruit.” The branches of the wild gooseberry, I may remark, are smooth, with the exception of thorns at the bases of the buds.
The genus is still better known as a Silurian form, but the spinose species appear to belong exclusively to the “Lower Devonian,” and are found in Britain, Europe, and the Cape of Good Hope.
Similarly, the spinose fin-rays were to have been termed "acanthonemes," the branching and multiarticulate "arthronemes," and those of the more elementary and "adipose fin" type "protonemes": and had he lived to complete the task, I question whether it would not have excelled his earlier achievements.
Nape with a crest of distinct, rather short, curved, compressed, spinose scales; back and tail with a series of compressed keeled scales, forming a slight keel; occiput with separate short strong conical spines: sides of the neck and back with folds crowned with series of short compressed scales; base of the tail with some scattered larger scales.
Thorax: fulvo-hyaline, with a dark fuscous border at the apex; the knees, tibiæ and tarsi reddish-yellow; the two latter spinose.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1950–1985).