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Abounding with pines. [Written also piney.] "The piny wood." Longfellow.

A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

A hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of propine and allied compounds.

Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.

Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

Spiny-winged.

A spiny-finned fish.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.

A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.

An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.

The spiny dogfish.

(Bot.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.

h isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl.

everal European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins. [Written also gournet.] Plyling gurnard. See under Flying.

h, esp. of the genus Diodon; the porcupine fish. -- Hedgehog grass (Bot.), a grass with spiny involucres, growing on sandy shores; burgrass (Cenchrus tribuloides). -- Hedgehog rat (Zoöl.), one of several West Indian rodents, allied to the porcupines, but with ratlike tails, and few quills, or only stiff bristles. The…

A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpæna scrofa).

The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.

e lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales. They inhabit the dry, sandy plains from California to Mexico and Texas. Called also horned lizard. -- Horned viper. (Zoöl.) See Cerastes.