spineless
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- adjective
- /ˈspaɪn.ləs/
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sin espinas
- Their Cage Masters have reduced the American animal to spineless jello without a care and are willing to accept whatever will be put through the bars for their consumption.
Examples
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He's the spineless sea sponge.
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Breeding work has resulted in some dwarf, spineless forms with superior ease of harvest.
Blog text (1) -
The spineless worm wants to play, huh?
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...one giant leap for spineless invertebrates.
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The flimsy, spineless crop that will emerge from this loss will be the end of what we love.
Blog text (19) -
Deuterostomes include vertebrate animals, like humans, and some spineless animals.
Blog text (4) -
Now the little roots of them were curled, spineless still, safe under the gravelly dirt and mulch.
Fiction book (1990) -
Peyote is a small, spineless, carrot-shaped cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and southward.
Academic text (2005) -
Amado amo is a minutely rendered omniscient account of a critical period in the life of a spineless artist who has dissipated his talent working for an advertising agency.
Academic text (1992) -
The garden is filled with spineless cacti that thrive in hot, dry climates.
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Etymology
Spineless comes from the word spine ('backbone' or 'thorn') and the part -less ('without'). So it literally means 'without spines' and is used for animals or plants that do not have sharp spines or thorns.