spine vs appendage

appendage vs spine

spine and appendage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spine	Yes	No	No	No
appendage	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, appendage is a hypernym of spine; that is, appendage is a word with a broader meaning than spine:

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
appendage: a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant

Other hypernyms of spine include outgrowth, process.

spine (noun)	appendage (noun)
a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin	a part that is joined to something larger
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	an external body part that projects from the body
the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord	a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
any sharply pointed projection

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