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Everything bore a peculiar hue of green, from the groves of myrtle, pimento and corkwood to the grassy plots, the natural fields of oats and even to the moss-covered rocks of the spinelike mountains.

From Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America by Rockwood, Roy

The type of baculum in Spermophilus is spoonshaped with a ventral process that is spinelike or keellike.

From Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks by White, John A.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spinyÐfinned.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

At Cape Town the American aloe tree has been introduced, and vast impenetrable hedges have been formed by the interlacing of its spinelike leaves, which are often six feet in length.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.