spines

英 [spaɪnz]

美 [spaɪnz]

n.  脊柱; 脊椎; (植物的)刺; (动物的)刺毛; 书脊
spine的复数

柯林斯词典

• 脊椎;脊柱
  Yourspineis the row of bones down your back.
• 书脊
  Thespineof a book is the narrow stiff part which the pages and covers are attached to.
• (动物身体上的)棘状突起;(植物上的)棘，刺，针
  Spinesare also long, sharp points on an animal's body or on a plant.

双语例句

• Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines.
  热带海洋鱼，牙齿合并为喙，厚厚的皮肤上盖有骨盘或脊骨。
• Its skin varies from yellow to dark pinkish red and is covered in soft spines.
  果皮有黄色和桃红色，覆盖有柔软的毛刺。
• Any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines.
  几种长有硬而平的脊骨鱼。
• Spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters.
  身体膨胀时脊骨直立；产于世界各地`的温暖水域。
• A low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico.
  低矮的长有小球的仙人掌，有白色羽毛状的刺；墨西哥东北部。
• Puffers having rigid or erectile spines.
  长有硬而直立的脊骨的河豚。
• A life of drudgery, of deformed spines, of chronic arthritis, of severed hands.
  生活只是苦力、脊柱变形、慢性关节炎和残断的双手。
• A pyramidal fir of southwestern California having spiny pointed leaves and cone scales with long spines.
  加州西南一种锥形冷杉，刺状叶，被长刺球果。
• Genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white.
  一个多分枝树状或灌木般的仙人掌属，有显著的棱，棱上有圆形针状刺，夜间开花，常为白色。
• This implies the spines drive sex for the first time and then they shrink or disappear.
  这意味着这种脊髓组织促使老鼠发生了初次性行为，并在初夜过后变少或消失。