spinsterdom (spinsterdum)

[ IMG:content-1762.png:[blocks in formation] carapace is spiny, or has spinous proce es; a spider scrab maioid. cut under Oxyrhyncha. Spiny fish, spiny-finned or acanthopterygian fish. - Spiny lobster. See lobster.- Spiny rat, one of sundry small rat-like rodents whose pelage is more or le spiny. (a) One of the South American species of Echimys and Loncheres or Nelomys. See cut under Echimys. (b) One of several pouched rats of the genus Heteromys.