Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a spine or spinal column; backboned; vertebrate.
  • Having spines; spinous or spiny: as, a spined caterpillar; the spined cicadas.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Furnished with spines; spiny.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective not comparable Having spines, spiny.
  • adjective comparable, in combination Having a certain type of spine (backbone).

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

spine +‎ -ed

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