A*can"tha (#), n. [Gr. thorn, fr. point. See Acute.]
1. Bot.
A prickle.
2. Zool.
A spine or prickly fin.
3. Anat.
The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.
Dunglison.
© Webster 1913.
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