Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
verteber .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.), obsolete A vertebra.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
joint of theback .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The bullet entered the front of the chest, went through three spine vertebre and out the back in front of the hind quarters ... bang flop.
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The bullet entered the front of the chest, went through three spine vertebre and out the back in front of the hind quarters ... bang flop.
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En passant, j'y ai laissé une vertebre, une cervicale et un pied!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009
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Reigning Revere Beach champion Jonathan Bouchard of Montreal was creating a turtle with a futuristic shell resembling interlocking vertebre.
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"Chez tous les singes, les plis posterieurs se developpent les premiers; les plis anterieurs se developpent plus tard, aussi la vertebre occipitale et la parietale sont-elles relativement tres-grandes chez le foetus.
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes Charles Darwin 1845
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