multispined

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adjective

Of or pertaining to a structure having multiple spines.

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Meanings

adjectivemultispined (not comparable)
  1. not comparableanatomyOf or pertaining to a structure having multiple spines.

    Posterior tibiæ multispined; spines alternately long and short.

    1872, F.V. Hayden, Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Μontana and Portions of Adjacent Territories Being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 437
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    It is channeled through multispined copper fins which warm the air and release it into the air ducts of the house.

    1946 December, “Trunk-Size Oil-Burning Furnace Heats Five-Room House”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 86, number 6, →ISSN, page 170

    Male red-sided garter snakes have a multispined hemipenis with a sizeable basal spine that is inserted into the female during the reproductive bout.

    2024 May 15, Kevin Lee Teather, The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females, Oxford University Press, page 131
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