Ossicle

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  • noun. A small bone, especially one of the three bones of the middle ear.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A small bone or bonelet.
  • noun. A small hard nodule of chitin or some substance resembling bone.
  • noun. Also ossicule, ossiculum.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A little bone.
  • noun. One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.
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  • noun. A small bone (or bony structure), especially one of the three of the middle ear.
  • noun. Bone-like joint or plate, especially:
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  • noun. a small bone; especially one in the middle ear
    • Word Usage
    "There's little point discussing the minutiae of ossicle evolution if you reject that reptiles and mammals share a common ancestor."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bone  os  
    Hyponym
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    auditory ossicle  
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    auditory bone  auditory ossicle  bonelet  ossicular chain  
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