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spina
[ spahy-nuh ]
noun
, Anatomy, Zoology.
, plural spi·nae [spahy, -nee].
- a spine or spinelike projection.
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The course was divided down the centre by a low wall, called the spina, which was adorned with various sculptures.
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At the age of twenty-two, Ancilla turned a dancer and Spina became a singer.
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Along the transverse axis ran a fence (spina) separating the return course from the starting one.
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The sentence is very obscure, but the allusion must be to the dolphins, the figures of which were placed upon the spina.
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It seems that in a corresponding place near the other end of the spina figures of dolphins were used for the same purpose.
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