metapodiale
English
editNoun
editmetapodiale (plural metapodialia)
- (anatomy, dated) Alternative spelling of metapodial
- 1907, William Corless Mills, Explorations of the Edwin Harness mound, page 56:
- The bone usually employed in making the needle was the metapodiale bone of the deer and elk.
References
edit- “metapodiale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.