Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hard substance growing on the inside of a horse's knee.
- n. The cuttlebone, pen, or calamary of some squids or cuttlefish.
- n. Same as ossicle.
Wiktionary
- n. A little bone.
- n. zoology The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A little bone.
- n. (Zoöl.) The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish.
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
Examples
“osselet" (or osselle) and Mr. Payne, "hucklebones," concerning which he has obliged me with this note.”
“Chambaud renders osselet by “petit os avec lequel les enfants jouent.””
“Chambaud renders osselet by "petit os avec lequel les enfants jouent.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘osselet’.
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Knee-ded Words
In honor (?) of John
aknee, anomalogonatous, anticnemion, bainberg, bandy-jig, besagne, bight, bott, knee, breast-knee, cartilage, cnemapophysis and 155 more...
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Letterrorists
A bunch of -let words, emphasis on the diminutive. Feel free to neologize.
booklet, flatlet, haslet, nutlet, platelet, streamlet, varlet, aglet, gablet, leaflet, piglet, ringlet and 504 more...
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Words of Dinosaurology
This quickly got bigger and weirder than originally intended, so now it's housing terms that relate to the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. See also Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Ichthy...
zygopophyses, ziphodont, plesiomorphic, cleidoic, endothermy, ectothermy, viviparous, vertebrae, cervical, dorsal, sacral, caudal and 628 more...
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Seven Letters of Joy
tertile, retinol, opacity, ceilidh, opaline, doughty, luddite, languor, buccula, sillage, delphic, surfeit and 32 more...
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