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Hawk Moth :: Hawk moth () Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvae are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm..

Spiny :: Spiny (a.) Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree..

Coronated :: Coronated (a.) Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.

Acantha :: Acantha (n.) A spine or prickly fin.

Spinulose :: Spinulescent (a.) Having small spines; somewhat thorny.

Rachitis :: Rachitis (n.) Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets..

Thorn-headed :: Thorn-headed (a.) Having a head armed with thorns or spines.

Neurapophysis :: Neurapophysis (n.) The dorsal process of the neural arch; neural spine; spinous process.

Spinescent :: Spineless (a.) Having no spine.

Vibraculum :: Vibraculum (n.) One of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as Avicularia..

Franklinite :: Franklinite (n.) A kind of mineral of the spinel group.

Interneural :: Interneural (a.) Between the neural arches or neural spines.

Banstickle :: Banstickle (n.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback..

Spine-finned :: Spined (a.) Furnished with spines; spiny.

Lordosis :: Lordosis (n.) A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region..

Dermoneural :: Dermoneural (a.) Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes..

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn..

Sunfish :: Sunfish (n.) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish..

Spiniform :: Spiniferous (a.) Producing spines; bearing thorns or spines; thorny; spiny.

Spine-tailed :: Spinetail (n.) The ruddy duck.

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