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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spine/spʌɪn/
▶noun
- 1 a series of vertebrae extending from the skull to the small of the back, enclosing the spinal cord and providing support for the thorax and abdomen; the backbone.
- 2 a central feature or main source of strength.
- 3 the part of a book's jacket or cover that encloses the inner edges of the pages.
- 4 chiefly Zoology & Botany a prickle or other hard pointed projection or structure.
- 5 (also pay spine) a linear pay scale operated by some large organizations that allows flexibility for local and specific conditions.
– derivatives
-spined adjective.
-spined adjective.
– origin ME: shortening of OFr. espine, or from L. spina ‘thorn, backbone’.
'spine' also found in these Oxford entries:
arête
- back
- backbone
- butcher's broom
- cerebrospinal
- chiller
- chimera
- chine
- coelacanth
- disc
- dowager's hump
- extrapyramidal
- filefish
- half binding
- headband
- horseshoe crab
- kundalini
- kyphosis
- length
- logrunner
- loin
- lordosis
- mull
- orthotic
- Paget's disease
- pelvis
- prickle
- quarter binding
- quill
- rachis
- rachitic
- rib
- ridge
- scoliosis
- small
- spina bifida
- spinal
- spinal column
- spinal cord
- spine-chiller
- spineless
- spinet
- spine-tingling
- spinulose
- spondylosis
- stingray
- surgeonfish
- triggerfish
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