| 单词 | osseous |
| 释义 | osseous (once / 19003 pages) adj Osseous means bony. If your next door neighbor buried their old pet cat in their yard, watch that your dog doesn’t go digging over there, looking for an osseous treat. Osseous comes from the Latin word for bone, oss. You can use osseous to describe things that are literally made of bone, like the osseous structure of your skeleton. You can also use osseous to describe things that have hardened like bones. You might find an osseous piece of taffy in your coat pocket, left there last summer. In that case you could say the taffy ossified. WORD FAMILYosseous USAGE EXAMPLESApropos of these different osseous processes, we are reminded that they are also present in the human skeleton. Cuyer, ?douard, Artistic Anatomy of Animals(2011) "There must be some osseous matter behind my dura mater!" Oliphant, Laurence, Piccadilly—A Fragment of Contempora...(2011) In the second month this brain corresponds then to the brain of an osseous fish. Bradlaugh, Charles, A Few Words About the Devil—And Oth...(2011) adj composed of or containing bone osseous tissue Syn bony, osteal |
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