Usually means: Having a backbone or thorns.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. spined: Merriam-Webster
  2. spined: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spined: Collins English Dictionary
  4. spined: Vocabulary.com
  5. spined: Wordnik
  6. spined: Wiktionary
  7. Spined, spined: Dictionary.com
  8. Spined: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. spined: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Spined: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. spined: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Spined, -spined: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spined, -spined: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spined: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Spined, -spined: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spined, -spined: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spined)

▸ adjective:  (not comparable) Having spines, spiny.
▸ adjective:  (comparable, in combination, usually figuratively) Having a certain type of spine (backbone).

Similar:
tailspin, gyrate, twirl, whirl, birl, spin out, twist, reel, tell, recite, more...

Opposite:
spineless, unspined, spine-free

Types:
cactus, porcupine, hedgehog, seurchin, bur, echinoderm, more...

Phrases:
three spined stickleback, ten spined stickleback, three spined sticklebacks, Spined soldier bug, more...

Adjectives:
three, ten, fifteen, short, long, two, four, fourth, nine, small, densely

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Similar:
tailspin, gyrate, twirl, whirl, birl, spin out, twist, reel, tell, recite, more...

Opposite:
spineless, unspined, spine-free

Types:
cactus, porcupine, hedgehog, seurchin, bur, echinoderm, more...

Phrases:
three spined stickleback, ten spined stickleback, three spined sticklebacks, Spined soldier bug, more...

Adjectives:
three, ten, fifteen, short, long, two, four, fourth, nine, small, densely



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