vertebrae

Meaning of vertebrae

plural noun
  1. 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

  • It is a name.
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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

verberate

Words that rhyme with vertebrae

brae, Tenebrae, hemivertebrae, palpebrae, sternebrae, tenebrae, terebrae, Librae, fibrae, librae, Millbrae, penumbrae, umbrae

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