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Definition of Spinier
1. spiny [adj] - See also: spiny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinier
Literary usage of Spinier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by John Oswald, Joseph Thomas, James Lynd, John Miller Keagy (1868)
"STER, signifies one that: as, song'ster, one that sings songs; spinier, one that
spins; teamster, ..."
2. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1865)
"... Brachiopods of the genera Productus, spinier, and Ort/rie, ... Lower Zechstein
in Saxony,—some specimens two and a half inches broad; spinier ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"... the American represent ative of the spinier striatus of the European Mountain
Limestone fauna; note the large size, the completely plicated shell, ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... from Barletta to spinier-;'.: (between Rocchetta S. Antonio and Gioia del
Colle), from Bari to Putignano, and via Gioia del Colic to Taranto, ..."
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