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despine

verb

Etymology

From de- + spine.

  1. derived from spīna
  2. derived from espine
  3. inherited from spyne
  4. prefixed as despine — “de + spine”

Definitions

  1. To remove the spines from a plant.

    • The carrot seed is first put through a despining machine, where the spine is broken through some sort of rubbing action.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for despine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA