Ossicone
//ˈɒsɪkəʊn// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Either of the horn-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes and male okapi. Some extinct species in the family bore antler-like ossicones.
"The Kanapoi Sivatherium has two pairs of ossicones, above the eye and between the ears, and neither is diminutive."
Example
More examples"The Kanapoi Sivatherium has two pairs of ossicones, above the eye and between the ears, and neither is diminutive."
Etymology
From Latin os (“bone”) and Middle French cone, from Latin cōnus (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”).
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