spine

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

spine [spine spines] BrE [spaɪn] NAmE [spaɪn] noun
1. the row of small bones that are connected together down the middle of the back
Syn: ↑backbone
2. any of the sharp pointed parts like needles on some plants and animals
•Porcupines use their spines to protect themselves.
see also ↑spiny
3. the narrow part of the cover of a book that the pages are joined to

Word Origin:
late Middle English: shortening of Old French espine, or from Latin spina ‘thorn, prickle, backbone’.

Example Bank:
•Hedgehogs are covered with sharp spines.
•Once embedded in the skin, these savage spines are difficult to dislodge.
•The legislature must grow a spine and demand this.
•Their protests stiffened the spines of party activists.
•These speeches form the spine of his election campaign.
•the nerves in the spine

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  backbone, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet, spur, acantha, spinal column, vertebral column, back, rachis