osseous
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin osseus (“bony, (attributive) bone”), from os (“bone”) + -eus.
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osseous (not comparable)
- Of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.
- 1900, Lindsay Swift, Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, New York: The MacMillan Company, page 120:
- One of Hecker's successors at the honest task of baking was Peter M. Baldwin, known to all as the 'General' — a tall, spare, osseous sort of man, built on the large Western plan, and thought to resemble Andrew Jackson.
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relating to bone
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