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Etymology

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From pleuro- +‎ osteon.

Noun

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pleurosteon (plural pleurostea)

  1. (archaic, ornithology, anatomy) The anterolateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pleurosteon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)