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spine

English

  1. 🔊 a sharp rigid animal process or appendage
  2. 🔊 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”
  3. 🔊 a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
  4. 🔊 any sharply pointed projection
  5. 🔊 the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
    “the fall broke his back”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 espinazo spine, backbone
  2. 🔊 columna vertebral spine, vertebral column
  3. 🔊 espina spine, backbone, spinal column
  4. 🔊 espina dorsal spine, backbone (series of vertebrae that encloses the spinal cord)

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