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spineless

adj

Etymology

From spine + -less.

  1. derived from spīna
  2. derived from espine
  3. inherited from spyne
  4. formed as spineless — “spine + -less”

Definitions

  1. Having no spines, prickles, or thorns.

  2. Having no spinal column.

  3. Cowardly, uncourageous

    Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character.

    • Killership requires a person to become brave and polite. It is not deal of weakwilled and spineless people. This deal likes neither cheating nor foolishness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at spineless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01spineless02thorns03thorn04sharp05intelligent06capacity07absorb08sponge09invertebrates10invertebrate

A definitional loop anchored at spineless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at spineless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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