spine-bearing

There are several species of this great spine-bearing family; and many of them, especially the true porcupines and the echidnas, have burrows in the ground and thus have a double means of protecting themselves.

The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923

Notwithstanding the shortness of the hedgehog's spines, he is the most highly specialised of all spine-bearing animals.

The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923

These larvae have two pairs of cylindrical, spine-bearing pro-legs -- one on the prothorax and the other on the hindmost abdominal segment; the latter structures serve to fix the larva in the muddy tube which it inhabits at the bottom of its native pond.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

The exposed larvae of the Willow-beetles (Phyllodecta, fig. 14) have their somewhat abbreviated body segments protected by numerous spine-bearing, firm tubercles.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

Two or three times the dogs got on an old trail and rushed off giving tongue, whereat we galloped madly after them, ducking and dodging through and among the clusters of spine-bearing tress and cactus, not without getting a considerable number of thorns in our hands and legs.

Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches Theodore Roosevelt 1888

In the genus _Dædalea_ the tubes become more or less elongated horizontally and thus approach the form of the gills, while in some species the tubes are more or less toothed or split and approach the spine-bearing fungi at least in appearance of the fruit-bearing surface.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

Even in England it has been noticed that all spine-bearing and sting-bearing plants are palatable to quadrupeds, when the thorns are crushed.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845