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n. The spinal column of a vertebrate.

n. Zoology Any of various pointed projections, processes, or appendages of animals.

n. Botany A strong, sharp-pointed, usually woody outgrowth from a stem or leaf; a thorn.

n. Something that resembles or suggests a backbone, as:

n. The hinged back of a book.

n. The crest of a ridge.

n. Strength of character; courage or willpower.

n. A person or thing's backbone; the series of bones collectively from one's (literal or figurative) head to tail or pelvis.

n. A rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant.

n. Courage or assertiveness.

n. The narrow, bound edge of a book.

n. A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

n.

n. A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.

n. One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.

n. The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; -- so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebræ.

n. Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.

n. In botany, a stiff sharp-pointed process, containing more or less woody tissue, and originating in the degeneracy or modification of some organ.

n. The backbone; the rachis, spina, or spinal column of a vertebrate.

n. A name of some part in various animals.

n. In much., any longitudinal ridge; a fin.

n. In lace-making, a raised projection from the cordonnet: one of the varieties of pinwork; especially, one of many small points that project outward from the edge of the lace, forming a sort of fringe.

n. The duramen or heartwood of trees: a ship-builders' term. See duramen.

n. and hemal.

n. One of the quills of a harpsichord or spinet.

n. Specifically, a sharp, columnar mass of solidified lava which was forced upward to a height of over 1,000 feet above the summit of Mount Pelée, Martinique, in 1903. See volcano, 1. It constituted a new phenomenon in vulcanology. See cut under cumulo-volcano.

n. a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin

n. a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

n. the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

n. the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved

n. any sharply pointed projection

"For Tanzanian guide George Mavroudis, the animal most likely to send shivers up his spine is the African lion."

spined    spines    spining   

part    portion    projection   

backbone    ridge    spine of the sphenoid    hemal spine    nasal    ethmoidal spine    typhoid spine    spines of the ilium    palatine spine    railway spine   

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

thorn    ridge    rotate    devise    fabricate    attenuate    continue   

Aline    Cline    Combine    Dine    Heine    Jain    Klein    Kline    Quine    Rhine   

thigh    rib    vertebra    abdomen    pelvis    wrist    limb    skull    muscle    jaw