ossifrage
Americannoun
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the lammergeier.
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Archaic. the osprey.
noun
Etymology
Origin of ossifrage
1595–1605; < Latin ossifraga sea eagle, literally, bone-breaker (noun use of feminine of ossifragus bone-breaking), equivalent to ossi- (combining form of os ) bone + frag-, variant stem of frangere to break + -a nominative singular feminine noun and adj. ending
Example Sentences
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Pliny, the extremity of the intestine of the ossifrage, if worn as an amulet, is well known to be an excellent remedy for colic.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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