Modifies a noun

• hair: I'd like some spiky blond hair, like Howard Jones.

• fragment: Interestingly, in addition to the high proportion of spiky fragments, pit fills include an above average proportion of rounded fragments.

• guitar: Bedroom pop with a penchant for home made sounds and spiky guitars.

• grass: The heat from the early morning sun warmed his face, the spiky grass poking through the gaps in the sleeves of his shirt.

• fruit: The female flowers are followed by decorative, brown, spiky fruits.

• profile: The report uses the term ' spiky profile ' .

Modifying Another Word

• very: She wasn't the only woman in the city that Saturday afternoon with very short, very spiky, very red hair.

• quite: Preservation was recorded as ' good ' throughout, while angularity was generally ' spiky ' or ' quite spiky ' .

• suitably: The thorn trees look suitably spiky and you certainly know not to land on them if you can help it.

• so: Just the two songs from a chap with hair so spiky he could walk into the Hibs midfield in an instant.

• generally: From Crete and one or two small areas of Turkey, it has attractive silvery-grey leaves and a generally spiky, architectural appearance.

Used with adjective complement

• get: When Naota transformed his hair would get really spiky with dark red highlights.

• have: He was quite tall and buff and had spiky, brown hair.