spine   (Sound)

The noun spine has 5 senses

• spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis -- (the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back")


• spur, spine, acantha -- (any sharply pointed projection)


• spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet -- (a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf)


• spine, backbone -- (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; "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book")


• spine -- (a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin)