a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin krzyżówka

(zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait type genus of the Sepiidae wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers type genus of the Fregatidae breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia and Tibet and Mongolia large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots large brownish-green New Zealand parrot cobras glossy snake any lizard of the genus Moloch only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus type genus of the family Zeidae a confusion of activity and gossip; "the buzz of excitement was so great that a formal denial was issued" (Islam) a fast (held from sunrise to sunset) that is carried out during the Islamic month of Ramadan a reciprocal group action; "in return we gave them as good as we got" money received from the state