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vertebras

  • plural
    of vertebra.
    vertebra
    noun
    any of the bones or segments composing the spinal column, consisting typically of a cylindrical body and an arch with various processes, and forming a foramen, or opening, through which the spinal cord passes.

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These vertebras are piled up one upon the other; for God has made our bodies upright; our faces, are lifted upwards, and our eyes look straight before us.

From Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

These are the Rocky Mountains, the American Andes, the colossal vertebras of the continent!

From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart

The fish is called a Vertebrate animal, because it has a backbone, made up of numbers of separate bones called vertebras.

From Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

Its peculiar characteristic is its extraordinary fragility— arising from the muscles being articulated quite through the vertebras.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

A little aft of “midships” a pyramidal lump of fatty substance projected several feet above the line of the vertebras.

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

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