thornlike

Researchers working in the Biodiversity Research and Training (BRT) programme have discovered a new species of salamander featuring a short tail with thornlike scales.

Archive 2006-12-01 2006

Tropidophorus is a genus of keeled skinks (thus the mention of thornlike scales, which salamanders don't have). posted by Chad Arment @ 11: 30 AM

Archive 2006-12-01 2006

Probably a weed from the broad leaf with the thornlike tips.

Wellspring of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 2004

Kirk looked from it—an inch-long oval of soft plastic with a single thornlike needle projecting from one side—to the still face of Trae.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

Kirk looked from it—an inch-long oval of soft plastic with a single thornlike needle projecting from one side—to the still face of Trae.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

It was a twelve-foot Fire Angel that had just enteredrusset-colored, with wings like stained-glass windowsand, along with intimations of mortality, it brought me recollections of a praying mantis, with a spiked collar and thornlike claws protruding through its short fur at every suggestion of an angle.

Sign of Chaos Zelazny, Roger 1987

Where round the print of thorns, in thornlike splendour, 55

Old and New 1917

The rough tubercles of the Flounder, and the scattered thornlike tubercles of the Turbot, develop directly, not by the continuous modification of imbricated scales.

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

A full-grown male carries a crest of thornlike spines down its head and back; a female’s crest is daintier.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

A full-grown male carries a crest of thornlike spines down its head and back; a female’s crest is daintier.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004