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• ossa
  ossa

  noun

  plural of os.
• Ossa
  Ossa

  noun

  a mountain in E Greece, in Thessaly. 6,490 feet (1,978 meters).

ossa

¹ American  

[os-uh] / ˈɒs ə /

noun

1. plural of os.

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Ossa ² American  

[os-uh] / ˈɒs ə /

noun

1. a mountain in E Greece, in Thessaly. 6,490 feet (1,978 meters).

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Ossa ¹ British  

/ ˈɒsə /

noun

1. a mountain in NE Greece, in E Thessaly: famous in mythology for the attempt of the twin giants, Otus and Ephialtes, to reach heaven by piling Ossa on Olympus and Pelion on Ossa. Height: 1978 m (6489 ft)

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ossa ² British  

/ ˈɒsə /

noun

1. the plural of os 2

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Example Sentences

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

Effingit senem stantem: ossa, musculi, nervi, venae, rugae etiam ut spirantis apparent: rari et cedentes capilli, lata frons, contracta facies, exile collum.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

L, pelvis or "ossa innominata" ilium, ischium, and pubes anchylosed;

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

Beneath is an inscription also now obliterated, but which Mr. Weir gives as follows:— p. 42Leonis fossa nunc hæc Dymoke capit ossa.

From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by Walter, James Conway

Caput eius Antigono refertur, qui victoria mitius usus filium eius Helenum 5 cum Epirotis sibi deditum in regnum remisit, eique insepulti patris ossa in patriam referenda tradidit.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund