spines

• “Now I give plenty of credit to catfish noodlers who get cut up by fin spines and the occasional muskie man that gets a clamp-down on his hand.”

  Are Marlin The Most Dangerous Fish?

• “However, the person who said that Democrats lack spines is very correct.”

  Senate Democrat fuming at Lieberman

• “Breaking spines is complete sacriledge in my book (LOL) but then I'm rather ... pedantic ... about dog earing the corners.”

  Countdown to Angels' Blood: Devon Monk - Magic in the Blood ARC

• “Prickly pear - nothing with potentially painful spines is worth the trouble of eating.”

  100 Things to Eat Before You Die | Heretical Ideas Magazine

• “JH - Mr Anders addressed this above, but thinks the idea of editors with jelly spines is crazy talk.”

  Medieval But No Manifesto

• “In the brain, these connections between neurons are formed by small protrusions called "spines", which are spread on branches of neurons called spines are crucial for normal brain function.”

  Drug Therapy For Autism | Impact Lab

• “If, like me, you have soft hands and don’t want to risk being impaled by urchin spines, wear a sturdy glove on the hand holding the urchin.”

  Sea Urchins with Tips on How to Open Them (Αχινός)

• “If the spines are the screw-in type, they can come loose.”

  Hooping.org | Blog | Fire Up! Fire Hooping With Kahunahula

• “Excepting the formidable armature of the cone of P. pungens, the spines are the strongest and most persistent of all the species of eastern North”

  The Genus Pinus

• “The scales of the back are small and unequal; they gradually increase in size as they approach the base of the conical spines, which is surrounded with a ring of larger scales with longer spines; the large spines are conical; rather compressed, spinulose below, smooth and acute at the tip, and are usually furnished with a sharp-toothed ridge on the front edge, and sometimes on both.”

  Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2

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