spinous

Meaning

Adjective

  • Having many spines.
  • Spine-like; spiny.
  • Of a person: difficult to deal with, prickly.
  • Of a subject: providing many difficulties, thorny.
  • Having a sharp projection.

Origin

  • spine + -ous, or borrowed from Latin spinōsus.

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