Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as ossicle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Same as ossicle.

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  • noun anatomy An ossicle.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small bone; especially one in the middle ear

Etymologies

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Latin, a little bone.

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