spine
noun
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a sharp rigid animal process or appendage
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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 shelvedโthe title and author were printed on the spine of the bookโbackbone
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the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cordback
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a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leafprickerstickerthornpricklespikelet
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any sharply pointed projectionspuracantha