שִׁזְרָה, (preced.) cord, esp. spinal column; skeleton (interch. with שִׁדְרָה); trnsf. stem, rib of a plant. Y. Sot. IX, 23ᶜ top מציינין על הש׳ וכ׳ you must mark the spot as unclean if you find a spinal column or a skull. Y. Taan. II, 65ᶜ top כנגד … שבש׳ corresponding to the eighteen vertebræ of the spinal column. Y. Succ. III, 53ᶜ bot. לולב … ש׳ the Lulab must be a handbreadth high, not counting the stem; a. fr.—Pl. שִׁזְרוֹת, שִׁי׳. Y. Ab. Zar. II, 42ᵃ כל שהראשים והש׳ וכ׳ (fish-brine) in which the heads and the spines are intact; (Bab. ib. 40ᵃ ראש ושדרה).—Y. Sabb. III, beg. 5ᶜ שִׁיזְרֵי חריות stems of dry twigs (prob. to be read: שִׁיּוּרֵי, v. חֶרְיָה).