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adjective

Spiky adj.

Like a spike; spikelike. "These spiky, vivid outbursts of metallic vapors."

Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes. "Or by the spiky harrow cleared away." "The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore."

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Etymology of 'Spiky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spiky" Quotes from Famous Books

... awhile and rushing to the ground, The low of ox, and shouts of men who fired The brushwood, or who tore the earth with ploughs. The grain sprang thick and tall, and hid in green The blackened hill-side; ranks of spiky maize Rose like a host embattled; the buckwheat Whitened broad acres, sweetening with its flowers The August wind. White cottages were seen With rose-trees at the windows; barns from which Came loud and shrill ...

— Poems • William Cullen Bryant

... round another thing of beauty—a spiky agave (miscalled aloe) of monstrous dimensions which may be seen in the garden of a certain hill-side hotel. Many are the growths of this kind which I have admired in various lands; none can vaunt as proud and harmonious a development as this one. You would say it had been cast ...

— Alone • Norman Douglas

... black as porter, gliding under their dank and rotting aisles—mountainous quadrupeds or lizards crashing and tearing through their branches—one of them at least six hundred feet in length, with a ridgy back and long spiky tail, dragging on the ground, a baleful green eye, and a crooked mouth full of horrid fangs, which made it look the very incarnation of cruelty and brute strength—black lakes and grisly reeds as high as bamboo—prodigious black serpents troubling the water, and rearing their long spiry necks above ...

— A Trip to Venus • John Munro

... ravine had been barricaded with a twelve-foot boma of thorn scrub. It was a fence high enough and strong enough to stop even a hungry lion. In the centre was a low opening, partly masked by the dry spiky fronds of ...

— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

... to face him they saw an unclean, tousled man, very tall, with stooping shoulders, protruding black eyes, spiky hair, and a ...

— Klondike Nuggets - and How Two Boys Secured Them • E. S. Ellis

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