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a.
Having no spine.
n.
One of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as Avicularia.
n.
The three-spined stickleback.
n.
A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins.
n.
A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.
n.
A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium.
n.
Alt. of Spinelle
a.
Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines.
n.
Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.
superl.
Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
n.
Any one or several species of swifts of the genus Acanthylis, or Chaetura, and allied genera, in which the shafts of the tail feathers terminate in rigid spines.
a.
Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals.
a.
Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule.
a.
Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles, spurs, claws, etc.
n. pl.
A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.
n.
An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.
n.
A lateral curvature of the spine.
n.
The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
a.
Furnished with spines; spiny.
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Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zool.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells.
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