spinous
IPA: spˈɪnʌs
adjective
- Having many spines.
- Spine-like; spiny.
- (obsolete) Of a person: difficult to deal with, prickly.
- (rare) Of a subject: providing many difficulties, thorny.
- (anatomy) Having a sharp projection.
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Examples of "spinous" in Sentences
- Next is the spinous or squamous cell layer, the thick middle tier of the epidermis.
- When the basal cells reach the spinous layer, they are referred to as squamous cells.
- There are quite a some sites discover there that cater to indie and bound medium lovers, as I fresh spinous discover on Newteevee.
- If I had so sweet a place, I would plant brambles, briers, blackthorn, furze, crataegus, every kind of spinous growth, inside my gates, and never let anybody lop them.
- I'am not at all a paleontologist but I teach human anatomy and I'am very astonished by the spinous process of the vertebrae of the Maiacetus : on the skeleton you show us, spinous process of thoracic and lombar vertebral column are in the opposite angle caudal for thoracic and cranial for lombar : is it normal on dinosaurs ? was this on the original fossile ?
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