Word Type

Noun

The word "backbone" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

Bustamante backbone backboned backboneless devil's backbone to the backbone

Derived From

back bone

Part Of (Holonyms)

skeleton

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

connecter connection connective connector connexion fortitude part portion skeletal structure support

Type Of (IsA)

connection fortitude part

Parts (Meronyms)

coccyx intervertebral disc sacrum tailbone vertebra

Part Of

book net

Related Terms

courage fortitude fundamental infrastructure spinal cord strength structure support through and through vertebrae vertebrate

Synonym Network

anchor decision firmness fortitude spinal column spine vertebral column

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