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Thorn :: Thorn (n.) A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine..

Rack :: Rack (n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

Spinate :: Spinal (a.) Of or pertaining to a spine or spines.

Spinet :: Spinescent (a.) Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines..

Griskin :: Griskin (n.) The spine of a hog.

Spur :: Spur (n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg..

Coronated :: Coronated (a.) Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.

Swordfish :: Swordfish (n.) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long..

Spine-tailed :: Spinetail (n.) The ruddy duck.

Jewstone :: Jewstone (n.) A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin.

Piper :: Piper (n.) A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines..

Spine :: Spine (n.) A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

Spinigerous :: Spiniform (a.) Shaped like a spine.

Postscapula :: Postscapula (n.) The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula..

Backbone :: Backbone (n.) The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

Spinulose :: Spinulescent (a.) Having small spines; somewhat thorny.

Spiny :: Spinulous (a.) Covered with small spines.

Echinoidea :: Echinoidea (n. pl.) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid..

Paxillus :: Paxillus (n.) One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix..

Anacanthous :: Anacanthous (a.) Spineless, as certain fishes..

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