épine

Definitions of épine
  1. noun
    a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
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    type of:
    couverture, couverture naturelle
    a natural object that covers or envelops
  2. noun
    a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
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    types:
    arete
    any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
    type of:
    excroissance, proéminence
    a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
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