| To tease out the details of the transition, other researchers recently turned to lancelets, vertebrates' closest spineless relatives. |
| I won't tell you what I think about the yellow-bellied, spineless, poor excuse for a man. |
| It is, if anything, to arraign them as the spineless cultural conformists so many of them are. |
| His father is a spineless jellyfish who lets his wife rule with an iron fist. |
| The most shameful element in the production was not the weak choreographic text but the stagers ' spineless indecision about tone. |
| Monogenic control was also found for spiny versus spineless, with the spiny trait being completely or partially dominant. |
