ossa
noun
plural of os.
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- plural of os.
ossa
1 American
[os-uh]
/ ˈɒs ə /
noun
Ossa
2
American
[os-uh]
/ ˈɒs ə /
noun
Ossa
1
British
/ ˈɒsə /
noun
ossa
2
British
/ ˈɒsə /
noun
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An I.N.S. photographer found McCarthy propped up in bed in blue pajamas, swathed in bandages from his tuberositas deltoidea to his ossa metacarpalia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Michelangelo's great paintings were at Rome the Florentines copied chiefly his statues, devoting themselves principally, as Lanzi says, to ostentatiously showing "magna ossa lacertosque."
From Michelangelo by Romain Rolland
The angle of union of the ossa pubis in the male is from sixty to eighty degrees, whereas, in the female it is ninety degrees.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker
Already at his entrance in Halle, one of the professors greeted the nineteen-year-old giant with the words, 'Quanta ossa!
From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente
Tarde venientibus ossa, he would have exclaimed if he had known Latin.
From Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' by José Rizal
“Allergies be damned, you want your family to be happy,” said Ossa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Like Ossa, Mamdani said he didn’t need any coaxing to agree to a cat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
WTO Chief Economist Ralph Ossa said: "Tariffs are a policy lever with wide-ranging, and often unintended consequences."
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
Ossa lost the presidential election in August to Bongo by more than 30 percentage points.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
They threatened that they would pile Mount Pelion on Mount Ossa and scale the heights of heaven, as the Giants of old had piled Ossa on Pelion.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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