| 单词 | spine |
| 释义 | spine (once / 627 pages) n WORD FAMILY spine: spinal, spineless, spines, spinous+/spinal: spinally, spinals/spineless: spinelessly, spinelessness USAGE EXAMPLES“Speaking as a mom, I felt a chill down my spine,” she said referring to recent political broadcast. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Cue tingles down spines, lumps in throats and tears in eyes all round. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) No cancer recurred there, but the remaining tumors continued to grow, new ones appeared, and cancer spread to his spine. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1n the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord Syn|Hypo|Hyper back, backbone, rachis, spinal column, vertebral column notochord a flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates chinebackbone of an animal urochorda notochord of a larval tunicate typically confined to the caudal region skeletal structure any structure created by the skeleton of an organism 2n any sharply pointed projection Syn|Hyper acantha, spur projection any solid convex shape that juts out from something 3n a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin Hypo|Hyper ray any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish quilla stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog appendage, outgrowth, process a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant 4n a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf Syn|Hypo|Hyper pricker, prickle, spikelet, sticker, thorn glochid, glochidium a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti) aculeus a stiff sharp-pointed plant process 5n 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 the title and author were printed on the spine of the book Syn|Hyper backbone part, portion something less than the whole of a human artifact |
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