Related Words for backboned

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spine
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Noun, Noun
sand
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Noun, Noun, Adjective, Verb
guts
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Verb, Noun, Verb
grit
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Verb, Noun, Verb, Adjective
back
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Adjective, Verb
gumption
/x
Verb, Noun
anchor
/x
Noun, Noun, Verb
linchpin
/x
Verb, Noun, Verb
mainstay
/x
Verb, Noun
spinal column
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
vertebral column
/xx/x
Phrase, Noun
spinous
/x
Noun
boned
/
Adjective
spiny
/x
Adjective
ribbed
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Adjective
bony
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Adjective
spineless
/x
Adjective
jointed
/x
Adjective
skinned
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Adjective
spiky
/x
Adjective
boney
/x
Noun
strapped
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Verb
hardback
/x
Noun
muscled
/x
Adjective
limbed
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Adjective
sinewy
/xx
Adjective
legged
/x
Adjective
perky
/x
Noun
horned
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Adjective
spiked
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Adjective
webbed
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Adjective
toothed
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Adjective
fleshed
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Adjective
jawed
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Adjective
spidery
/xx
Noun
thorny
/x
Adjective
winged
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Adjective
spouted
/x
Adjective
horny
/x
Noun
curvy
/x
Adjective
hooded
/x
Adjective
leggy
/x
Adjective
necked
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Adjective
spangled
/x
Name
breasted
/x
Noun
bottomed
/x
Adjective
nervous
/x
Adjective
columned
/x
Adjective
furred
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Adjective
bilateral
x/xx
Noun
bluff
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Noun
ridged
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Adjective
animals
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Noun
creatures
/x
Noun
anthropoid
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Adjective, Noun
carnivorous
x/xx
Adjective
comatose
/xx
Adjective, Verb
dwelling
/x
Noun
extinct
x/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
gregarious
x/xx
Adjective
loathsome
/x
Adjective
lovable
/xx
Adjective
loveable
/xx
Adjective
loving
/x
Adjective, Noun
luckless
/x
Adjective
meanest
/x
Adjective
predatory
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Adjective
quadruped
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Noun
closet
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
bundle
/x
Noun, Verb
aisle
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Noun
bog
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
daylight
/x
Noun, Verb
gloss
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Noun, Verb
pidgin
/x
Noun
butt
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Noun, Verb
backwater
/xx
Noun, Verb
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
stovepipe
/x
Noun, Verb
dicky
/x
Name, Adjective
grape
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
blow
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
nickel
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
maypole
/x
Noun, Verb
idiomatic
xxx/x
Adjective, Noun