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Meaning of "spininess" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPININESS

spininess  [ˈspaɪnɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPININESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spininess is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SPININESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of spininess in the English dictionary

The definition of spininess in the dictionary is the quality of being covered with spines; thorniness. Other definition of spininess is the quality of having or being covered with quills or spines.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPININESS


canniness
ˈkænɪnɪs
graininess
ˈɡreɪnɪnɪs
Guinness
ˈɡɪnɪs
happiness
ˈhæpɪnɪs
horniness
ˈhɔːnɪnɪs
looniness
ˈluːnɪnɪs
luniness
ˈluːnɪnɪs
mooniness
ˈmuːnɪnɪs
phoniness
ˈfəʊnɪnɪs
puniness
ˈpjuːnɪnɪs
runniness
ˈrʌnɪnɪs
scrawniness
ˈskrɔːnɪnɪs
shininess
ˈʃaɪnɪnɪs
skinniness
ˈskɪnɪnɪs
stoniness
ˈstəʊnɪnɪs
sunniness
ˈsʌnɪnɪs
tawniness
ˈtɔːnɪnɪs
thorniness
ˈθɔːnɪnɪs
whininess
ˈwaɪnɪnɪs
zaniness
ˈzeɪnɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPININESS

spinescence
spinescent
spinet
spinier
spiniest
spiniferous
spinifex
spiniform
spinigerous
spinigrade
spink
spinless
spinmeister
spinnaker
spinner
spinneret
spinnerule
spinnery
spinney
spinning

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPININESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
comeliness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
friendliness
laziness
loneliness
loveliness
readiness
show business
timeliness
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of spininess in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spininess» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPININESS

Find out the translation of spininess to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spininess from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spininess» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

多针
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

espinosidad
570 millions of speakers

English

spininess
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

spininess
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشوكية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

spininess
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

spininess
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

spininess
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

d´épines
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Spininess
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

spininess
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

spininess
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

spininess
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spininess
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

spininess
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

spininess
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रानटीपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

spininess
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spininess
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spininess
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

spininess
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spininess
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

spininess
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spininess
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spininess
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spininess
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spininess

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPININESS»

The term «spininess» is used very little and occupies the 192.239 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPININESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spininess

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPININESS»

Discover the use of spininess in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spininess and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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ADVANCES IN AGRONOMY
Pod Spininess Although pod spininess acts as a good seed dispersal mechanism, it has cost the Australian wool industry hundreds of millions of dollars as a vegetable fault in wool clips, (Lunney, 1983). Both M. minima and M. polymorpha ...
Nyle C. Brady, 1989
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Sago palm: Metroxylon sagu Rottb. - Promoting the ...
Spininess Imbando people recognized the variety grown in Batu Pahat by means of a colour photograph as their cultivar 'Ambutrun'. 'Ambutrun' is said to be sterile; it apparently does not give seeds in the fruits. In Batu Pahat, however, if this ...
Flach, M.
3
Leaf Defence
Spininess. in. New. Zealand: the. spear. grasses. If it was only the ongaonga nettle (Urticaferox, Urticaceae; Figure 3.4) on New Zealand that had dangerously powerful relict defences we would still have to ask which herbivores had selected  ...
Edward E. Farmer, 2014
4
Fables
Surely, when the evidence is all around us of the harm caused by the reckless cultivation of spininess, he would not actually encourage individuals to succumb yet further to the deadly intoxications of such power? – Yes, yes, I would!
5
Safflower
The lower leaves on most safflower types are spineless; on the upper leaves the degree of spininess varies from spineless to horrible. Spininess is controlled by multiple genes. The number of spines per leaf varies from zero to 24 and length ...
Joseph R. Smith, 1996
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Shrubs and Trees of the Southwest Deserts
Spininess is common among desert plants; no one is quite sure why. Defense against herbivores is one suggestion. Another is that spininess is a consequence of the arid environment. What is certain is that desert plants arrive at spininess by  ...
Janice Emily Bowers, 1993
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Fruit Breeding, Tree and Tropical Fruits
Wakasa (1979) found very high proportions (up to 100%) of variants for spininess , leaf color, wax, and foliage density in plants differentiated from callus subcultures. Spininess and dense foliage variants were attributed to chimeras at the donor ...
Jules Janick, James N. Moore, 1996
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Flowers and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert
Spininess is common among desert plants; no one is quite sure why. Defense against herbivores is one suggestion. Another is that spininess is somehow a consequence of the arid environment. What is certain is that desert plants arrive at ...
Janice Emily Bowers, 1998
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Journal of Maharashtra Agricultural Universities
Inheritance of spininess in brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) has been reported by several investigators, (Dasale, 1971; Rangaswamy and Kadambavanasundaram , 1973; Nimbalkar and More, 1980 and Patil and More, 1983). Most of these ...
‎1987
10
Resistance to Verticillium Wilt (Verticillium Dahliae Kleb.) ...
Association of resistance to Verticillium wilt and spininess Table Al .2 Contingency chi-square test of independence of resistance to Verticillium wilt from Spininess of plants * Probability for assuming the following null hypothesis is true: ...
Yanxin Gao, 2004

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPININESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spininess is used in the context of the following news items.
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Poet Galway Kinnell Dies At 87
“From the hard spininess spiked out from the spine. down through the great broken heart. to the sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering. from the ... «Vermont Public Radio, Oct 14»
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Exclusive extract from Howard Jacobson's acclaimed new novel …
He was spiny, like a hedgehog, yes. The latest casualty of this spininess was an embryo-affair that had given greater promise than usual of relieving the lonely ... «The Independent, Sep 14»

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