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Search Results: backbone
- backbone
- (Encyclopedia) backbone: backbone: see spinal column.
- Backbone Mountain
- (Encyclopedia) Backbone Mountain Backbone Mountain, peak, 3,360 ft (1,024 m) high, NW Md., in the Allegheny Mts.; ...
- spinal column
- (Encyclopedia) spinal column spinal column, bony column forming the main structural support of the skeleton of ...
- vertebrate
- (Encyclopedia) vertebrate vertebrate, any animal having a backbone or spinal column. Verbrates can be traced back ...
- invertebrate
- (Encyclopedia) invertebrate invertebrate , any animal lacking a backbone. The invertebrates include the tunicates ...
- Andes
- (Encyclopedia) Andes Andes , mountain system, more than 5,000 mi (8,000 km) long, W South America. The ranges run ...
- Pennines
- (Encyclopedia) Pennines Pennines or Pennine Chain,mountain range, sometimes called the “backbone of ...
- Maryland: Facts and Figures
- (Encyclopedia) Facts and Figures Area, 10,577 sq mi (27,394 sq km). Pop. (2000) 5,296,468, a 10.8% increase since ...
- Chordata
- (Encyclopedia) Chordata Chordata , phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief ...
- glass snake
- (Encyclopedia) glass snake glass snake, common name for the snakelike legless lizards of the genus Ophisaurus ...
- Continental Divide
- (Encyclopedia) Continental Divide Continental Divide, the “backbone” of a continent. In North America, ...
- Ezion-geber
- (Encyclopedia) Ezion-geber Ezion-geber or Ezion-gaber[both: Heb.,=giant's backbone], ancient port, on the Gulf ...
- Trentino–Alto Adige: Land, People, and Economy
- (Encyclopedia) Land, People, and Economy The terrain is almost entirely mountainous, except for a narrow strip ...
- paleontology
- (Encyclopedia) paleontology paleontology [Gr.,= study of early beings], science of the life of past geologic ...
- Malay Peninsula
- (Encyclopedia) Malay Peninsula Malay Peninsula , southern extremity (c.70,000 sq mi/181,300 sq km) of the ...
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