A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.
Hard, rigid extensions of the cortex and epidermis, present in some plants (such as roses), without vascular tissue (unlike thorns/spines, which are modifications of stems or leaves, thus containing vascular tissue)
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Examples for "spine "
Examples for "spine "
1 However, the risk in orthopedic surgery remains unclear, especially in spine surgery.
2 It wasn't the New Age talk that sent shivers up my spine .
3 Therefore, the animal's internal organs hang from the spine in proper order.
4 The spine should simply include author name, book title and company name.
5 Conclusions: Clinical cervical spine tests can support the diagnostic process for CST.
1 A niggardly purse in the pocket becomes a thorn in the side.
2 For he recognized the hollow in the chalk-thegnarled thorn - the wide outlook.
3 She's told me often enough: I am a thorn in her side.
4 The Schongauers' transport monopoly had long been a thorn in their side.
5 Cael had been a thorn in Judah's side for far too long.
1 California didn't issue a new plate in 'fifty-seven, just a sticker tab.
2 Later, if the sticker was gone, they'd know the resident was home.
3 And there was a sticker on her guitar case and it said
4 Red ones meant home unsafe for habitation, green sticker inspected and passed.
5 That's a nice little sticker , by the way; Hamilton Standard made it.
1 Tossing the pricker bush aside, I delved into the vegetable patch again.
2 He dug through the supplies until he found another thin straw and finger pricker .
3 That scrub grass is probably loaded with pricker balls.
4 In the midst, Frank Talbot returned with the tidings that the pricker Guy Norman was nowhere to be found.
5 John Bain, a common pricker , swore that, as he passed her door, he heard her talking to the devil.
1 The molecular mechanism that controls the development of the spikelet remains unclear.
2 Attracted by the bait, she came with measured steps towards the spikelet .
3 Three lines with a heritable increase in spikelet number were identified.
4 There is nothing under the canopy of Heaven greater than an autumn spikelet .
5 The Tarantula, when touched by the intruding body, contemplates self-defence and bites the spikelet .
Make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn.
Cause a stinging or tingling sensation.
1 He felt his flesh prickle in the intensity of his suppressed excitement.
2 And she suddenly felt the hairs on her arms prickle and rise.
3 Perhaps if I am standing, it will not prickle quite so much?
4 But as Chance drew closer, he felt a familiar prickle of unease.
5 Sylvi stared at him, a prickle of cold moving up her spine.
6 Pete felt that electric prickle on her skin as magic took hold.
7 And there was something about the attic that made her scalp prickle .
8 Her skin was all hot prickle , indignant at the thought of them.
9 This, I suppose, is when I suffer my first prickle of disquiet.
10 Gaal felt the short hairs prickle on the back of his neck.
11 She saw it too, and felt the back of her neck prickle .
12 Arathan felt cool air reaching through sweat-matted hair to prickle his scalp.
13 I felt my eyes prickle with tears, but I did not cry.
14 I stopped, feeling the hair prickle along the back of my neck.
15 I could feel the hair prickle along the back of my neck.
16 His father was right; this was a morning to prickle a man's imagination.
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