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Noun: spinescence  spI'ne-sun(t)s
Usage: formal
  1. The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
    "The spinescence of the cactus made it difficult to handle";
    - prickliness, bristliness, spininess, thorniness

Derived forms: spinescences

Type of: raggedness, roughness