Spines is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPINES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• SPINE, the vertebral column
• 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
• the central feature or main source of strength of something
• resolution or strength of character.
• a linear pay scale operated by some large organizations that allows flexibility for local and specific conditions.
• a tall mass of viscous lava extruded from a volcano
• the part of a book's jacket or cover that encloses the inner edges of the pages, facing outwards when the book is on a shelf and typically bearing the title and the author's name.
• any hard, pointed defensive projection or structure, such as a prickle of a hedgehog, a spike-like projection on a sea urchin, a sharp ray in a fish's fin, or a spike on the stem of a plant.

Words related to SPINES

spine7

Words that contain SPINES

aspines9 gaspiness12 raspiness11 waspiness14 wispiness14 albespines14 crispiness14 spinescent14 gaspinesses14 raspinesses13 spinescence17 waspinesses16 wispinesses16 crispinesses16 spinescences18

How to use SPINES in a sentence

• Those terrible cactus spines are near enough to spear anyone who dared try to slide down a rope.
• It is readily distinguished by the long, curved spines with which the whole tree is beset.
• When the spines are rubbed off, the brioche-like shape is modified, and in place of the depression in the middle of the upper side there is seen a slight prominence.
• The external appearance of this Lizard is the most ferocious of any that I know, the horns of the head and the numerous spines on the body giving it a most formidable aspect.
• The scales of the underside of the body are of the same form as those of the back, and are furnished with similar but smaller and less produced spines.
• That South Africa should not remain a sphere of exploitation sent shivers down the spines of the financiers.
• The night wind sighed a soothing lullaby through the spines of the she-oak, and his spirit passed peacefully away with the ebb.
• One of these, with long white spines, is called ocoyome.
• My stock has survived five generations of such diet as has bent the spines of the forest pigs and stunted the oxen.
• Their bodies are covered with short soft spines, which, however, speedily harden.
• They either have poisonous fangs, sharp spines, ferocious claws, or disagreeable odours.
• His spines do not terminate in sharp points, like those of the porcupine, but end in tiny knobs.
• The tail was armed with four or more stout spines two feet long and five or six inches thick at the base.
• The nasal spines are, as usual, small, simple, and acute.
• Gunther does not believe that they can erect their separate spines or scales.
• The facts you state seem quite to support the usual view, that thorns and spines have been developed as a protection against other animals.

Similar words containing SPINE without suffix s

spine7 aspine8 spined9 spinel8 spinet8 aspines9 spinels9 spinets9 vespine12 spinelle10 spinette10 albespine13 gaspiness12 raspiness11 spineless11 spinelike15 spinelles11 spinettes11 waspiness14 wispiness14 albespines14 crispiness14 spinescent14 gaspinesses14 raspinesses13 spinelessly16 spinescence17 waspinesses16 wispinesses16 crispinesses16 spinescences18 spinelessness15 spinelessnesses17

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