different between spine vs swayback

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

sway +? back

Noun

swayback (countable and uncountable, plural swaybacks)

1. An excessive sagging of the spine of a quadruped animal, especially a horse.
2. An animal with such excessive sagging.

Derived terms

• swaybacked

Translations

Anagrams

• backways, waybacks