spines
SaySPYNZ/spaɪnz/
- 1Plural of spine.
The hedgehog raised its spines the moment it sensed danger.
Faded titles ran down the spines of the books on the top shelf.
Note
A regular plural that does most of its work where things come many at a time: the needles of a hedgehog or a cactus, the bound edges along a shelf of books. Botanists use the word narrowly. A plant's spines are, strictly, structures grown from a leaf or part of a leaf, so a careful writer saves the term for those rather than for every prickle.
spines is a form of spine
spine, noun: A series of bones running down the back from the head to the pelvis in humans, or to the tail in animals, enclosing the spinal cord and supporting the body. Full entry
- Forms
- spinespines plural
- Spelling
- spine → spines: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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