spinous
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Having many spines.
— The cetaceous tribes have their bones entirely resembling those of quadrupeds, thick, white, and filled with marrow : those of the spinous kind, on the contrary, have small slender bones, with points resembling thorns, and generally solid throughout.
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Spine-like; spiny.
— It is however to be remarked, that these hairs are not of a spinous nature, as in the Mus fasciculatus and the Mus macrourus; they may properly be compared to bristles, having more consistence and rigidity than those of the Mus decumanus and giganteus; and in a natural arrangement, our animal stands between these species, and between those from which the character of the section is derived by M. Desmarest, and which, in a more rigorous sense, may be called spinous Rats.
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Of a person: difficult to deal with, prickly.
— He had the rough magnanimity of the old English vein, mellowed into tenderness and dashed with a flexible and spinous humor.
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Of a subject: providing many difficulties, thorny.
— The spinous problem shifted from the how to find minima efficiently to what method should be employed to provide a better connection between the topography and the dynamics on the surface.
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Having a sharp projection.
— the spinous processes of the lumbar vertebrae
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词汇关系
词源
From spine + -ous, or borrowed from Latin spinōsus.
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