spina: znaczenie i definicje

In zoöl. and anat.:

A spine, in any sense.

The Spine, or spinal column; the backbone: more fully called spina dorsalis or spina dorsi, also columna spinalis.

In ornithology, a genus of fringilline birds, the type of which is S. lesbia of southern Europe. Kaup, 1829. Also called Buscarla. See Spinus.

In Roman antiquity, a barrier dividing the hippodrome longitudinally, about which the racers turned.

One of the quills of a spinet or similar instrument.

A slender projection from the upper, median portion of a bird's sternum, just between the articulations of the coracoids.