OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 42382

spiky

/ˈspaɪki/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
puntiagudo
Having one or more spikes; spiny.
Three ornithischian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of North America may be growth stages of the same one species. Dracorex is smallest and spikiest. Stygimoloch is medium-sized…
chuzo • de punta • parado • pincho
Resembling spikes: erect and having sharp points; spikelike.
At first, he slept heavily, but, by degrees, began to roll and surge in bed, until he rose above the surface, with his spiky hair looking as if it must tear the sheets to ribbons.
[I]f ten thousand of this spiky tree, the larch, are stuck in at once upon the side of a hill, they can grow up into nothing but deformity; […]