spinous

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having many spines.

   “The cetaceous tribes have their bones entirely resembling those of quadrupeds, thick, white, and filled with marrow : those of the spinous kind, on the contrary, have small slender bones, with points resembling thorns, and generally solid throughout.”

2. sıfat Spine-like; spiny.

   “And yet — you are not to confuse the thistle with the cedar that is in Lebanon ; nor to forget — if the spinous nature of it become too cruel to provoke and offend — the parable of Joash to Amaziah, and its fulfilment : " There passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle."”

3. sıfat Of a person: difficult to deal with, prickly.

   “He had the rough magnanimity of the old English vein, mellowed into tenderness and dashed with a flexible and spinous humor.”

4. sıfat Of a subject: providing many difficulties, thorny.

   “The spinous problem shifted from the how to find minima efficiently to what method should be employed to provide a better connection between the topography and the dynamics on the surface.”

5. sıfat Having a sharp projection.

   “the spinous processes of the lumbar vertebrae”