spiky
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| —adj , spikier, spikiest | |
| 1. | resembling a spike |
| 2. | having a spike or spikes |
| 3. | informal (Brit) ill-tempered |
| 4. | characterized by violent or aggressive methods: spiky protestors |
| spikily | |
| —adv | |
| spikiness | |
| —n | |
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Spiky
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example sentences
They are scaleless fish and usually have rough to spiky skin.
Hotels, airlines and subways routinely ban the green, spiky fruit.
Crowds of pink asters lolled against the cardoons, spiky five-foot plants with exuberant gray-green foliage.
Perhaps that spiky relationship is what gives this book its marvelously pugnacious tone.
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