Spinous

Definition: Spinous

Spinous

Adjective

1. Shaped like a spine or thorn.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spinous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Spinous

Sharpness

Adjective: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred.

Crosswords: Spinous

Health

Keratinocytes of the more differentiated epidermal layers (upper spinous, granular, and cornified) show few, if any, cytologic changes. (references)

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Expression using "spinous": Spinous process of a vertebra. Additional references.

Danish

spinoes (spinose), tornet (spinose), tapformet (spinose). (various references)

Dutch

spinosus (spinose). (various references)

Finnish

okahai (bramble shark, spinous shark, spiny shark), isohämähäkkirapu (sea spider, spider crab, spinous spider crab, spiny crab). (various references)

French

épineux (spiny). (various references)

German

spinosus (spinose), spinös (crackpot). (various references)

Greek 

ακανθώδησ (prickly, spinose, spiny, thistly, thorny). (various references)

Italian

spinoso (prickly, thorny), spinato (spinose). (various references)

Pig Latin

inousspay

Portuguese

santola europeia (sea spider, spider crab, spinous spider crab, spiny crab), santola (spider crab), tubarao-prego (bramble shark, spinous shark, spiny shark), tubarão-prego (bramble shark, spinous shark, spiny shark), peixe-prego (bramble shark, spinous shark, spiny shark). (various references)

Russian 

игольчатый (needle, spicular). (various references)

Spanish

pez tachuela (bramble shark, spinous shark, spiny shark), pez clavo (bramble shark, spinous shark, spiny shark), centollo (spider crab), centolla europea (sea spider, spider crab, spinous spider crab, spiny crab), centolla de roca (sea spider, spider crab, spinous spider crab, spiny crab), centolla (sea spider, spider crab, spinous spider crab, spiny crab), capa espinosa de la epidermis (prickle-cell layer, spinous layer of epidermis, stratum filamentosum, stratum spinosum, stratum spinosum epidermidis), capa de células espinosas (prickle-cell layer, spinous layer of epidermis, stratum filamentosum, stratum spinosum, stratum spinosum epidermidis). (various references)

Swedish

stratum spinosum (prickle-cell layer, spinous layer of epidermis, stratum filamentosum, stratum spinosum, stratum spinosum epidermidis), spindelkrabba (sea spider, spider crab, spinous spider crab, spiny crab), tagghaj (bramble shark, spinous shark, spiny shark). (various references)

Turkish

sivri (acute, beaked, edged, jagged, nipping, pointed, pungent, sharp, sharp pointed, spinose, spired, spiry), iğneli (barbed, mordacious, mordant, pointed, sarcastic, scathing, spinose, with a needle, with needles, with pins), iğne gibi (spicular, spinose), dikenli (barbed, brambly, prickly, spiky, spined, spinose, spiny, thistly, thorny). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: opsins.

-2 letters: nisus, opsin, pions, pious, pisos, sinus, snips, soups, spins.

-3 letters: ions, nips, nous, onus, opus, pins, pion, piso, piss, pois, pons, psis, puns, puss, sins, sips, snip, sons, sops, soup, sous, spin, spun, suns, sups, upon.

-4 letters: ins, ion, nip, nos, nus, ons, ops, pin, pis, piu, poi, psi, pun, pus, sin.

+1 letter: pulsions, spinouts, spousing, spumonis, upsilons.

+2 letters: espousing, piousness, poisonous, spinulose, supposing, suspicion, uptossing.

+3 letters: assumption, bespousing, consulship, cousinship, duopsonies, expulsions, impulsions, outpassing, outsprints, percussion, perfusions, persuasion, posturings, prelusions, profusions, prolusions, pulsations, rainspouts, repulsions, supersonic, supinators, suspension, suspicions.

+4 letters: aponeurosis, assumptions, compulsions, conspicuous, consulships, copiousness, cousinships, disruptions, nonplussing, outpressing, percussions, persuasions, pincushions, piousnesses, piteousness, poisonously, poussetting, preclusions, proinsulins, propulsions, prosceniums, protrusions, resumptions, serpiginous, springhouse, subreptions, subsumption, superposing, supersonics, supertonics, supervision, supinations, suppletions, supposition, suppression, suspensions, suspicioned, suspiration, symphonious, usurpations, utopianisms.