棘 - thorn, splinter, spine

thorn, splinter, spine, biting words, briers

Readings

キョク

いばらとげ

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acanthodians (extinct jawed fishes)

spinous process

Muennink's spiny rat (Tokudaia muenninki); Okinawa spinous country-rat

sand sifting starfish (Astropecten polyacanthus); comb star

poisonous spine; venomous spine

infraspinatus muscle

flat rock crab (Percnon planissimum)

helmet crab (Telmessus acutidens)

stickleback (Gasterosteidae spp.)

spiny ray (of a fin)

there is no rose without a thorn; every rose has its thorn

Ryukyu spiny rat (Tokudaia osimensis)