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(n): any structure created by the skeleton of an organism

(n): any sharply pointed projection

(n): any solid convex shape that juts out from something

(n): a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

(n): a stiff sharp-pointed plant process

(n): the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved

(n): something less than the whole of a human artifact

(n): a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin

(n): a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant

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6 months ago reesetee said:

In bookbinding, the part of the book visible as the book stands on the shelf in conventional fashion (i.e., not "faced out").

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