Spine

Etymology
From espine: (modern French épine:) or its source,  spina:.

Noun

 * 1) A person or thing's backbone; the series of bones collectively from one's (literal or figurative) head to tail or pelvis.
 * 2) * 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 80,
 * If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls.
 * 1) A rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant.
 * 2) * 1871, Charles Darwin, Descent of Man, Chapter XII,
 * The male, as Dr. Gunther informs me, has a cluster of stiff, straight spines, like those of a comb, on the sides of the tail
 * 1) Courage or assertiveness.
 * 2) * 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 409,
 * Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
 * 1) The narrow, bound edge of a book.
 * 2) * Powells Book's, rare books basics,
 * Because the spine is generally all you can see when a book is on the shelf, the spine displays the title and author of the book and is often ornately decorated.

Derived terms

 * send shivers down someone's spine
 * spina bifida
 * spinal
 * spinal canal
 * spinal column
 * spinal cord
 * spiniferous
 * spinose
 * spinous
 * spiny

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: гръбначен стълб, гръбначни стълбове
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 骨幹, 骨干,  脊骨,  背骨,  脊椎
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: colonne vertébrale, échine (of animals)
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic:, hryggjarsúla


 * Japanese: 背骨, 脊椎,  脊柱
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: кичма, хрбат , хрптеница
 * Latin: kičma, hrbat , hrptenica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: bäkabom


 * Czech: osten trn, bodlina
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Greek: αγκάθι
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Russian: шип,,  колючка
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: diken


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 気骨, きこつ (kikotu)


 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: ράχη
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 本の背, ほんのせ (hon no se), 背表紙, せびょうし (sebyōshi)
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: hrbet
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, bokrygg

Anagrams

 * epsin
 * penis
 * pines
 * snipe

Noun
spine



Anagrams

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