The name Elattostachys refers to "little spikes", a flower feature of other plants in this genus.

A little spike in a precinct's numbers sends squads of officers to the night shift.

Both dressed in black, the woman's hair done up in little spikes.

It was punk rock star red and stuck out in little spikes.

Miguel couldn't make the plain blue skullcap provided by the synagogue stay on his hair, which he wears in little spikes.

Its hair was dyed a crisp white, and stiffened in little spikes.

More than warming, really-she felt a little spike of passion race through her body.

They investigated most of the parts of my body with their sharp little spikes.

They felt like little spikes in her mouth, and she lapped at the masculine taste of him mingled with the water.

A harrow, he added, is "just a flat thing with a lot of little spikes - and it breaks up clods."