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Osseous

//ˈɒsi.əs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or made of bone; bony. not-comparable

    "One of Hecker's successors at the honest task of baking was Peter M. Baldwin, known to all as the 'General' — a tall, spare, osseous sort of man, built on the large Western plan, and thought to resemble Andrew Jackson."

Adjective
  1. 1
    composed of or containing bone wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin osseus (“bony, (attributive) bone”), from os (“bone”) + -eus.

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