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Backbones Yielding Steaks With 31 Crossword Clue

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noun

• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

• any sharply pointed projection

• a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

• 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 sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin

30%6Backbones
noun

• cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone

• backbone of an animal

verb

• cut through the backbone of an animal

30%6 Relating to backbones
adjective

• of or relating to the spine or spinal cord

noun

• anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord

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