Usually means: Central support structure of vertebrates.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. backbone: Merriam-Webster
  2. backbone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backbone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backbone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backbone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backbone, backbone: Wordnik
  7. backbone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backbone: Wiktionary
  9. backbone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backbone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backbone: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. backbone: Dictionary.com
  13. backbone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. backbone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Backbone (Backbone album), Backbone (Roam album), Backbone (Status Quo album), Backbone (solitaire), Backbone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Backbone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. backbone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. backbone: Rhymezone
  19. backbone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. backbone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Backbone: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. backbone: FreeDictionary.org
  23. backbone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. backbone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. backbone: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. backbone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. backbone: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  2. backbone: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. backbone: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. backbone: Netlingo
  3. Backbone, Backbone, backbone: CCI Computer
  4. Backbone: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  5. Backbone: ILC Internet Terms
  6. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  7. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  8. Karbo's Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Webopedia (No longer online)
  10. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  11. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Backbone (network), backbone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. backbone: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Backbone: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. backbone: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. backbone: Medical dictionary
  7. Backbone: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. backbone: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. backbone: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. backbone: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Liquid Crystal (No longer online)
  5. Backbone: Data Acquisition
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. Backbone: Web Hosting Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (backbone)

noun:  The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.
noun:  (figuratively) Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
noun:  (figuratively) Courage, fortitude, or strength.

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