osseous

[os-ee-uhs]

adjective

1. composed of, containing, or resembling bone; bony.

osseous

/ ˈɒsɪəs /

adjective

1. consisting of or containing bone, bony

Other Word Forms

• osseously adverb
• interosseous adjective
• postosseous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of osseous¹

1675–85; < Latin osseus bony, equivalent to oss- (stem of os ) bone + -eus -eous

Word History and Origins

Origin of osseous¹

C17: from Latin osseus, from os bone

Example Sentences

By April, the team had found a multitude of small metal fragments consistent with a crash as well as “osseous material” — teeth and bones.

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“And so I began the poem, ‘Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower,’” she told the AP.

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It may be rather obvious by now that I'm rather besotted with all things osseous.

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The osseous labyrinth may be regarded as an osseous mould in the petrous portion of the temporal bone, lined by tesselated endothelium, and containing a small quantity of fluid called the perilymph.

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I poke the porkers thoughtfully with a stick in the place where their ribs should be, but they are of such an abbatical plumpness that my ferrule fails to discover any “osseous structure.”

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Related Words

• skeletal