spiny-rayed

Definitions

Examples

• Well, back when we started to get x-rays, doctors x-rayed the backs of people who came in with back pain.

• Bodies were photographed, x-rayed, looked at by a dentist, and handed down the line.

• François Pinault, at the opening of the Palazzo Grassi two years ago, exhibited his own skull X-rayed by Piotr Uklanski.

• When Spiny Norman, the giant hedgehog, goes looking for the Dimsdale brothers in Monty Python.

• The rules were fairly lax, and we watched Spiny Norman shouting “Dimsdale!”

• The white beam of light rayed out from a thick grove of shrubs and small trees on the other side of the big yard.

• Here and there a cactus plant thrust spiny arms into the air.

• "The first one at the hatch will probably be shot or rayed," grumbled Shanklin.

• The three-rayed design appears to have gained the victory over the others, and came into commoner use.

• Acanthopterygian, ak-an-thop-tėr-ij′i-an, adj. having spiny fins.