spiky

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in which sessile flowers are arranged on unbranched elongated axes”).
2. sıfat Of a plant part: resembling a spike of a plant (see above).

   “[D]iverſ hairy Stalks, about a hand breadth high, bearing every one a ſmall long ſpiky Head like to thoſe of the common Plantane, having ſuch like Bloomings and Seed after them.”

3. sıfat Having one or more spikes; spiny.

   “The ſpiky VVheels thro' Heaps of Carnage tore; / And thick the groaning Axles dropp'd vvith Gore.”

4. sıfat Resembling spikes: erect and having sharp points; spikelike.

   “[I]f ten thousand of this spiky tree, the larch, are stuck in at once upon the side of a hill, they can grow up into nothing but deformity; […]”

5. sıfat Of a person or their nature: difficult to deal with; abrasive, hostile, unfriendly.

   “a spiky personality”

6. sıfat Of a thing: not smooth; rough, sharp.
7. sıfat Excessively high church (“practising a formal style of liturgy and emphasizing continuity with Catholicism”).

   “I wondered if this meant he was a spiky Anglo-Catholic, which seemed a little unlikely, given that Norfolk's spiky hotspots are well-known.”