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appendage vs spine

spine vs appendage

appendage and spine both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
appendage Yes No No No
spine Yes No No No
As nouns, spine is a hyponym of appendage; that is, spine is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than appendage:
  • appendage: a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
  • spine: a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
Other hyponyms of appendage include horn, horn, crest, pseudopod, pseudopodium, flagellum, hair, cirrus, aculea, style, villus, tail, fetlock, tentacle, arista, acromial process, acromion, ala, alveolar arch, alveolar process, alveolar ridge, gum ridge, acrosome, caruncle, caruncula, condyle, coronoid process, processus coronoideus, epicondyle, fimbria, apophysis, spicule, spiculum, osteophyte, papilla, papilla, appendix, cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, vermiform process, mastoid, mastoid bone, mastoid process, mastoidal, styloid process, pterygoid process, eminence, tubercle, tuberosity, zygomatic process, trochanter, transverse process, odontoid process, metaphysis, olecranon, olecranon process, ridge, excrescence, papilla, enation, plant process, spinous process, maxillary palpus, labial palpus.
appendage (noun) spine (noun)
a part that is joined to something larger a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
an external body part that projects from the body the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved
a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
any sharply pointed projection
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