astragalus
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Origin of astragalus
From New Latin, dating back to 1535–45; see origin at astragal
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According to testimony from Rishe Khalili, firefighters’ use of bulldozers to put a contingency line around that fire ended up harming astragalus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025
If you lived in China, you’d probably add astragalus root to the broth.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2019
For fifty bucks, I bought a small jar of Brain Dust, which contains the herb astragalus and an Ayurvedic rock extrusion called shilajit.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 22, 2016
The relics from this house included a decorated animal bone called an astragalus and a bone dice which had been pushed into the floor of the rebuilt house.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2012
Also salvaged was an astragalus, which was a knucklebone of a sheep or a goat used like a die in a game called “knucklebone.”
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Under the volutes three rings, or astragali, may be seen.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
We can easily recognise the trochleæ which we have been discussing, in the little bones which children use ‘to play at bones’; these bones are no other than the astragali of sheep.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
Similarly dice are thrown for purposes of sortilege; the astragali or knucklebones, used in children’s games at the present day, were implements of divination in the first instance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
These are the people who work the tin, which they melt into the form of astragali, and then carry it to an island in front of Britain, called Ictis.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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