acantha
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Is acantha a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (botany) A prickle.
2. (zoology) A spine or prickly fin.
3. (anatomy) A spinous process of a vertebra.Examples: "Moreover, all the outgrowths which I have said constitute the acantha are not of equal size in all the vertebrae, and Nature has done this with wonderful forethought."; "Individual vertebral bodies (right) as seen from the side and from above. The acantha is the spiney projection on the right of each illustration: in the lower illustration the boney spinal canal is shown between the acantha and the vertebral body."; "Rotary strokes or stationary circles in the direction of the flank / Alternate from the acantha of the vertebral column in the direction of the flank (medial to lateral)"
Definition source: Wiktionary