Word

spine, n.
(spines)
freq. cnt. 3

the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
<noun.body> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

back backbone rachis spinal column spine vertebral column

sample sentences

"the fall broke his back"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

spinal

semantic pointers

hyponym

notochord chine

part meronym

spinal canal, vertebral canal, canalis vertebralis coccyx, tail bone vertebra intervertebral disc, intervertebral disk

hypernym

skeletal structure

part holonym

axial skeleton

a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
<noun.animal>

spine

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

spinous spinal

semantic pointers

hypernym

process, outgrowth, appendage

hyponym

ray quill

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
<noun.artifact>

backbone spine