[f. SPINY a. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being spiny.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, III. Comment. 48. To make the old men resemble Grasshoppers for their cold, and bloodlesse spininesse.
1902. Q. Rev., July, 125. A certain spininess which has developed even amongst genera that are elsewhere smooth.
1907. G. F. Scott-Elliot, Romance Plant Life, 181. The common Whin … is very nearly as perfect an example of thorniness and spininess.
