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Acantha

//əˈkæn.θə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A prickle.
  2. 2
    any sharply pointed projection wordnet
  3. 3
    A spine or prickly fin.
  4. 4
    A spinous process of a vertebra.

    "Moreover, all the outgrowths which I have said constitute the acantha are not of equal size in all the vertebrae, and Nature has done this with wonderful forethought."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”), from ἀκή (akḗ, “thorn”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”).

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