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spined, a.|spaɪnd|
[f. spine n.1]
1. Having, provided or covered with, spines; spinous, spiny.
1777Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4) IV. 4 Claws angulated; second joint spined. 1819G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 274 Feet..not strongly ciliated or spined. 1856A. 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. 1882P. M. Duncan Transf. Insects 91 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.).
1803Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 416 Spined Sparus, Sparus Spinifer. 1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes I. 381 The Spined Loche Groundling. Botia tænia. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 496/2 Echimys, Geoff. (Spined Rats). 1840Swainson & Shuckard Insects 64 One of the spined caterpillars of Brazil. Ibid. 130 The Centronotidæ, or spined cicadas, remarkable for..the spines upon their bodies. 1850A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 49 Dexamine spinosa. Spined Sea-Screw. 1879E. P. Wright Anim. Life 464 Of the Spined Sharks, or Spinacidæ, there are a good many species.
2. Having a spine or spinal column.
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