Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A conical bony horn, such as those found in the okapi.
Examples
“ Why couldn't it be an ossicusp, those furry, gentle protrusions so beloved on giraffes?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ossicusp’.
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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Biology
malacological, cladistic, phenetic, phylogenetic, taxonomy, bathypelagic, superfamily, superorder, infraorder, binomen, binominal, quorum sensing and 199 more...
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thelostpleiad's list
descuernacabras, sesquipedalian, cattywhompus, woolgathering, flibbertigibbet, ouroboros, wunderkammer, flabbergasted, hornswoggled, pulchritudinous, mondegreen, acnestis and 26 more...
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Funkalicious Vocab
Words I like. No particular reason why.
magnanimous, macilent, occam's razor, cacophony, capricious, contumacious, snollygoster, autochthon, cromulent, neology, ossicusp, eponym and 12 more...
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reesetee Truly. On a list it goes. :-) Oct 11, 2007
chained_bear You know, at first I thought this said "perusing giraffe," which, though an error, is so endearing, I'm putting it on my list anyway.
Ossicusp is a fantabulous word. Oct 11, 2007
john "The best parts of this query, as always, were the things I learned along the way: I've added Pursuing Giraffe to my to-read list (books on women's struggle to be taken seriously as scientists are always gripping reading) and I learned the word ossicusp -- which is a very rare term for the skin-covered horns on the head of a giraffe (or an okapi)."
- Dictionary Evangelist Oct 11, 2007