spiny-rayed

Well, back when we started to get x-rays, doctors x-rayed the backs of people who came in with back pain.

Bodies were photographed, x-rayed, looked at by a dentist, and handed down the line.

François Pinault, at the opening of the Palazzo Grassi two years ago, exhibited his own skull X-rayed by Piotr Uklanski.

When Spiny Norman, the giant hedgehog, goes looking for the Dimsdale brothers in Monty Python.

The rules were fairly lax, and we watched Spiny Norman shouting “Dimsdale!”

The white beam of light rayed out from a thick grove of shrubs and small trees on the other side of the big yard.

Here and there a cactus plant thrust spiny arms into the air.

"The first one at the hatch will probably be shot or rayed," grumbled Shanklin.

The three-rayed design appears to have gained the victory over the others, and came into commoner use.

Acanthopterygian, ak-an-thop-tėr-ij′i-an, adj. having spiny fins.