different between spine vs surgeonfish

English

Etymology

From Middle English spyne, from Old French espine (modern French épine) or its source, Latin sp?na.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /spa?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

spine (plural spines)

1. The series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a person, or from the head to the tail of an animal; backbone, vertebral column.
2. Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures radiate.
   1. The narrow, bound edge of a book.
3. A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant.
4. The heartwood of trees.
5. (figuratively) Courage or assertiveness.
6. The stiffness of an arrow.
7. (neuroscience) Ellipsis of dendritic spine

Synonyms

• (sharp protuberance from a living thing): needle; quill (on animals, flexible); spike (rigid); virgula (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• spine at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Espin, Pines, Snipe, epsin, penis, pines, snipe

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin sp?na.

Noun

spine f (plural spinis)

1. thorn
2. spine, prickle

Related terms

• spin

Italian

Noun

spine f

1. plural of spina

Anagrams

• pensi, pinse

Latin

Noun

sp?ne

1. vocative singular of sp?nus

Middle English

Noun

spine

1. Alternative form of spyne

English

Etymology

surgeon +? fish

Noun

surgeonfish (plural surgeonfishes or surgeonfish)

1. Any of many species of reef-dwelling fishes, most of them brightly coloured, of the family Acanthuridae. They are named "surgeonfish" because they bear erectile, scalpel-like, dangerously sharp spines on either side of the caudal peduncle.

Translations

References

• surgeonfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Acanthuridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Acanthuridae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons