Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The median and single one of the five separate bones or ossific elements of which the sternum of a carinate bird usually consists; the piece or part of the breast-bone which includes the crest or keel: correlated with coracosteon, pleurosteon, and metosteon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.
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- noun anatomy The central
keel -bearing part of thesternum inbirds .
Etymologies
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New Latin, from Ancient Greek for "crest" and "bone".
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