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They are scaleless fish and usually have rough to spiky skin.
Hotels, airlines and subways routinely ban the green, spiky fruit.
Crowds of pink asters lolled against the cardoons, spiky five-foot plants with exuberant gray-green foliage.
Perhaps that spiky relationship is what gives this book its marvelously pugnacious tone.
His look now is gelled and spiky, with a beard and untucked shirt.
The outside should be spiky as random early broadcasts went sporadically in random directions.
Spiky defensiveness has given way to profuse apologies.
On the bottom of the females' tank is a white, spiky formation: squid eggs in their cases.
Spiky yucca punctuates this conservation garden visitable by appointment.
From there, it was a steep scramble up terrain snarled with thickets of slide alder and spiky devil's club.
The two firms are bombarding one another in barbed letters and spiky press conferences.
Mega-region hubs are becoming more economically central to our spiky world.
Grow these striking plants for their large leaves as well as their spiky flowers.
When the hot lava met the cold water it cooled and hardened, creating the spiky headlands and narrow bays seen today.
There are spiky projections in the picture of the inner core on opposite ends at about one and seven o'clock.
He's fortyish, lean and tall, with spiky hair and expensive-looking eyewear.
Wu and her colleagues soon found that spiky silicon absorbs nearly all the light that falls on it.
Each spiky point is a subdued representation of the magnetic lines.
Coronaviruses, so called because of their spiky crown of protein globules, are generally not mortally harmful.
Stinging wasps, toxic spiders, and spiky caterpillars are all on the mantids' menu.
Her coxcomb of tough, spiky hair shivered as she launched into a torrent of accusation.
These are loose, gawky glyphs of spiky, unidentifiable flora or fauna.
Apparently the fruit's sweet, creamy center is a treasure worth pursuing if you can bear the stink and get past the spiky husk.
Their remarkable skin can change texture, becoming spiky or smooth on a whim.
Miniature carnations and spiky fir needles create a wreath that's both fragrant and strikingly elegant.
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