osseous

English

Adjective

osseous (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.
   • 1900, Lindsay Swift, Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, p. 120 (The MacMillan Company, New York, 1900)

     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.

Derived terms

• endosseous
• exosseous
• extraosseous
• immunoosseous
• interosseous
• intraosseous
• nonosseous
• osseous tissue
• perosseous
• preosseous
• supraosseous
• transosseous

 

Translations

relating to bone

• Arabic: عَظْمِيّ‎ (ʿaẓmiyy)
• Belarusian: касцявы́ (kascjavý)
• Bulgarian: ко́стен (kósten)
• Catalan: ossi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 骨（的） (gǔ (de))

• Czech: kostní (cs)
• Finnish: luu- (fi) (consisting of bone tissue), luinen (fi) (made of bone)
• French: osseux (fr)
• German: knöchern (de), Knochen- (de)

• Ido: ostala (io)
• Latin: osseus
• Macedonian: коскен (kosken)
• Persian: استخوانی‎ (fa) (ostoxâni)
• Polish: kostny (pl)
• Portuguese: ósseo (pt)
• Romanian: osos (ro)
• Russian: ко́стный (ru) (kóstnyj), костяно́й (ru) (kostjanój) (especially "made of bone")
• Spanish: óseo (es)
• Ukrainian: кісткови́й (kistkovýj)