spinous
English
/spaɪnəs/
adj
Definitions
- 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.
Etymology
Suffix from English spine borrowed from Latin spinōsus.
Origin
Latin
spinōsus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aspinous English
- axospinous English
- bispinous English
- despine English
- finspine English
- fourspine English
- holospine English
- interspinous English
- macrospinous English
- microspine English
- protospine English
- sacrospinous English
- spinal English
- spinate English
- spine English
- spine pig English
- spineback English
- spinebill English
- spinebuster English
- spined English
- spinefoot English
- spineless English
- spinelet English
- spinelike English
- spinely English
- spinescent English
- spinetail English
- spiniferous English
- spinitis English
- spinoid English
- spinophilin English
- spinose English
- spiny English
- subspinous English
- superspinous English
- supraspinous English
- spinōsus Latin
- spyne Middle English
- spine
- spiny
- spined
- spinal
- spinoid
- spinose
- spinely
- spinate
- despine
- aspinous
- spinitis
- spinelet
- finspine
- spineback
- spinefoot
- spinetail
- spine pig
- spinebill
- spinelike
- holospine
- spineless
- fourspine
- bispinous
- protospine
- microspine
- axospinous
- spinescent
- subspinous
- spinophilin
- spiniferous
- spinebuster
- superspinous
- interspinous
- macrospinous
- sacrospinous
- supraspinous