a. [f. SPINE sb.1]
1. Having, provided or covered with, spines; spinous, spiny.
1777. Pennant, Brit. Zool. (ed. 4), IV. 4. Claws angulated; second joint spined.
1819. G. Samouelle, Entomol. Compend., 274. Feet … not strongly ciliated or spined.
1856. A. R. Wallace, in Ann. Nat. Hist., July, 27. A female Mias, on a durian tree, kept up … a continuous shower of branches and of the heavy, spined fruits.
1882. P. M. Duncan, Transf. Insects, 91. Their legs are well developed; the hind ones are particularly strong, and the others are spined.
b. In the specific names of various animals, fishes, etc., as spined caterpillar, cicada, loach, rat, sea-screw, shark, sparus (see quots.).
1803. Shaw, Gen. Zool., IV. II. 416. Spined Sparus, Sparus Spinifer.
1836. Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, I. 381. The Spined Loche Groundling. Botia tænia.
1839. Penny Cycl., XV. 496/2. Echimys, Geoff. (Spined Rats).
1840. Swainson & Shuckard, Insects, 64. One of the spined caterpillars of Brazil. Ibid., 130. The Centronotidæ, or spined cicadas, remarkable for … the spines upon their bodies.
1850. A. White, List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus., 49. Dexamine spinosa. Spined Sea-Screw.
1879. E. P. Wright, Anim. Life, 464. Of the Spined Sharks, or Spinacidæ, there are a good many species.
2. Having a spine or spinal column.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
