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Below the spine; infraspinate; infraspinous.

Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle.

Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary. "Intercalary spines." Owen. This intercalary line . . . is made the last of a triplet. Beattie. Intercalary day (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs. Mayne.

Between the hemal arches or hemal spines. -- n.

Between the neural arches or neural spines. -- n.

Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column.

A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin.

stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.

n igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).

A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region.

Having a curved spine.

sh (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.

The clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.

A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.

A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance.

Having numerous spines, as certain fishes.

The dorsal process of the neural arch; neural spine; spinous process.

ng to Notodonta, Nerice, and allied genera. The caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back.

rection. Projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine. Sir. W. Scott.

One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.