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spine

 
Noun spine has 4 senses
  1. spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis - the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back"
    --1 is a kind of skeletal structure
    --1 is a part of axial skeleton
    --1 has parts:
     spinal canal, vertebral canal, canalis vertebralis; coccyx, tail bone; vertebra; intervertebral disc, intervertebral disk
    --1 has particulars: notochord; chine
  2. spur, spine - any pointed projection
    --2 is a kind of projection
  3. spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker - a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf
    --3 is a kind of aculeus
    --3 has particulars: glochidium, glochid
  4. spine - a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
    --4 is a kind of
    process, outgrowth, appendage
    --4 has particulars: ray; quill
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