needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer
porcupinefish (Diodon holacanthus); balloonfish
needlework; sewing; seamstress
hedgehog (any mammal of family Erinaceidae)
memorial service for old needles
to hurt someone's feelings
bed of nails; bed of thorns; bed of needles
to be like a frog in a well; to make (faulty) assumptions based on one's limited understanding of something; (lit.) to look at the skies through the eye of a needle
Gasterosteus microcephalus (species of stickleback)
you can't always get what you want; man plans and God laughs; things don't always turn out the way you hope
any horsehair worm of class Gordioidea; gordian worm (of class Gordioidea); hair worm (of class Gordioidea); wireworm (click beetle larva)
black locust; robinia pseudoacacia
exaggeration; making a mountain out of a molehill
stinging words; biting remarks
seam; stitch; eye of a needle
(lit.) Finger cut-off, ten thousand fist-punches, whoever lies has to swallow a thousand needles; words said when making a pinky swear
wire frame representation
hell's mountain of needles
golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta); Madokai's cuttlefish (Sepia madokai)
short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossidae spp.); spiny anteater
Japanese halfbeak (Hemiramphus sajori); stickleback
storehousebush (Cudrania tricuspidata); mandarin melon berry; silkworm thorn; cudrang
white-throated needletail (species of swift, Hirundapus caudacutus)
spiny amaranth (Amaranthus spinosus); spiny pigweed; prickly amaranth; thorny amaranth
Burmeister's porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis)
pale cabbage (Brassica tournefortii); Asian mustard
castor aralia (Kalopanax septemlobus); prickly castor oil tree
tiger-tail spruce (Picea polita)