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Backbone
Back |
Part of your body from your shoulders to your bottom. |
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Bone |
The hard parts inside a human or animal that make up its frame. |
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back + bone |
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Backbone |
The line of bones down the centre of the back, that support the body. (aka - vertebrae spine or spinal column) |
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Example Sentence:- |
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"The neck bone's connected to the backbone."!Note - Backbone can be used idiomatically, and it can also refer to the part of a network that connects other networks together: "the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic" |
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