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Bass :: Bass (n.) An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species..

Anacanths :: Anacanths (n. pl.) A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod..

Phyllosoma :: Phyllosoma (n.) The larva of the spiny lobsters (Palinurus and allied genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs are very long. Called also glass-crab, and glass-shrimp..

Acanthopterygious :: Acanthopterygious (a.) Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned.

Holly :: Holly (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas..

Sea Crayfish :: Sea crayfish () Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster..

Spiodea :: Spiny (n.) See Spinny.

Wrasse :: Wrasse (n.) Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored..

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

Hogfish :: Hogfish (n.) A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa)..

Acanthocephalous :: Acanthocephalous (a.) Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala..

Spiny :: Spiny (a.) Like a spine in shape; slender.

Moloch :: Moloch (n.) A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance.

Mastigure :: Mastigure (n.) Any one of several large spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastix. They inhabit Southern Asia and North Africa.

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

Lobster :: Lobster (n.) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters..

Malacopterygii :: Malacopterygii (n. pl.) An order of fishes in which the fin rays, except the anterior ray of the pectoral and dorsal fins, are closely jointed, and not spiny. It includes the carp, pike, salmon, shad, etc. Called also Malacopteri..

Spiny :: Spiny (a.) Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances.

Thorny :: Thorny (superl.) Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown..

Tragacanth :: Tragacanth (n.) A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth..

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