spina
Kelime Anlamı :

1. diken.
2. (spinae). Diken, ucu sivri çıkıntı.
Tanımlar :
1. in zoöl. and anat.:
2. A spine, in any sense.
3. the spine, or spinal column; the backbone: more fully called spina dorsalis or spina dorsi, also columna spinalis.
4. in ornithology, a genus of fringilline birds, the type of which is S. lesbia of southern europe. Kaup, 1829. also called Buscarla. see Spinus.
5. in roman antiquity, a barrier dividing the hippodrome longitudinally, about which the racers turned.
6. one of the quills of a spinet or similar instrument.
7. A slender projection from the upper, median portion of a bird's sternum, just between the articulations of the coracoids.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia