vertebrae
Meaning of vertebrae
plural noun
- each of the series of small bones forming the backbone, having several projections for articulation and muscle attachment, and a hole through which the spinal cord passes.
the needle is inserted between two of the vertebrae
she crushed a vertebra in a fall at Chepstow
early 17th century: from Latin, from vertere ‘to turn’.
Information about vertebrae
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Hyphenation of vertebrae
ver-te-brae
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- vertebrae is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Anagrams of vertebrae
Words that rhyme with vertebrae
brae, Tenebrae, hemivertebrae, palpebrae, sternebrae, tenebrae, terebrae, Librae, fibrae, librae, Millbrae, penumbrae, umbrae
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