acantha

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  1. noun A sharp spiny part or structure, such as the spinous process of a vertebra.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek akantha, thorn.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἂκανθα, a prickle, thorn, spine, a prickly plant, a thorny tree, the spine (of fish, serpents, men), one of the spinous processes of the vertebræ, from ἀκή, a point. Cf. Acanthus.
 

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