meaning of spine
1. A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
2. A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.
3. One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
4. The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; -- so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebrae.
5. Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.
6. a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
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