Spiny is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 43 anagrams from letters in spiny (inpsy).
First recorded in 1580-90; spine + -y1
Its spiny stems and leaves, which cut like razors, make it difficult to approach.
If the coating has spiny hairs, as in the Chestnut and Beechnut, the whole is a bur.
The rules were fairly lax, and we watched spiny Norman shouting “Dimsdale!”
A dog snatched at a spiny lower leg and crunched and darted away.
Disk with spiny surface, four times as broad as the outer, and ten times as broad as the inner medullary shell.
They were green and blue and red, and they had spiny rays like starfish on which they danced.
The compact soil was covered with wild and spiny vegetation.
Cortical shell with spiny surface, composed of six (or more) kidney-shaped chambers of different size and form.
When spiny Norman, the giant hedgehog, goes looking for the Dimsdale brothers in Monty Python.
Shell thin walled, with spiny surface; in each corner of the hexagons is one bristle-like radial spine twice as long as one pore.
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