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Meanings of Ossifiers:

noun

A person who or thing which ossifies.

Meanings of Ossifies:

verb

Turn into bone or bony tissue.

Usage examples:

These tracheal cartilages may ossify

Meanings of Ossiform:

adjective

Of the form of bone; resembling bone or a bone.

Meanings of Ossifrage:

noun

A bird of prey reputed to break bones by dropping them from a great height (usually identified with the lammergeier or bearded vulture, gypaetus barbatus).

Meanings of Ossify:

verb

Turn into bone or bony tissue.

Usage examples:

These tracheal cartilages may ossify

Meanings of Ossifying:

verb

Turn into bone or bony tissue.

Usage examples:

These tracheal cartilages may ossify

Meanings of Ossuaries:

noun

A container or room in which the bones of dead people are placed.

Usage examples:

The ossuary contains the bones from six different people, including a male aged about sixty.

Meanings of Ossuarium:

noun

A receptacle or repository for the bones of the dead; = "ossuary".

Meanings of Ossuary:

noun

A container or room in which the bones of dead people are placed.

Usage examples:

The ossuary contains the bones from six different people, including a male aged about sixty.

Meanings of Ostalgia:

noun

Pain in a bone or bones.

Meanings of Ostariophysan:

noun

A fish of the superorder ostariophysi which includes the majority of freshwater fishes, and is characterized by the presence of the weberian apparatus (connecting the air bladder with the inner ear).

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating (fishes of) the superorder ostariophysi.

Meanings of Ostariophyseae:

noun

A fish of the superorder ostariophysi which includes the majority of freshwater fishes, and is characterized by the presence of the weberian apparatus (connecting the air bladder with the inner ear).

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating (fishes of) the superorder ostariophysi.

Meanings of Ostariophysi:

noun

A fish of the superorder ostariophysi which includes the majority of freshwater fishes, and is characterized by the presence of the weberian apparatus (connecting the air bladder with the inner ear).

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating (fishes of) the superorder ostariophysi.

Meanings of Ostariophysous:

noun

A fish of the superorder ostariophysi which includes the majority of freshwater fishes, and is characterized by the presence of the weberian apparatus (connecting the air bladder with the inner ear).

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating (fishes of) the superorder ostariophysi.

Meanings of Osteal:

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of bone.

Meanings of Ostectomies:

noun

Surgical excision of part or all of a bone; an instance of this.

Meanings of Ostectomy:

noun

Surgical excision of part or all of a bone; an instance of this.

Meanings of Osteichthyes:

plural noun

A class of fishes that includes those with a bony skeleton.

Usage examples:

The division teleostei within the osteichthyes (bony fish) is made up of 38 orders.

Meanings of Osteitic:

adjective

Of or relating to osteitis.

Meanings of Osteitis:

noun

Inflammation of the substance of a bone.

Usage examples:

Skeletal radiographs showed linear radiolucencies in the metaphyses of the long bones and lucent ar…

Meanings of Ostend:

proper noun

A port on the north sea coast of north-western belgium, in west flanders; population 69,175 (2008). it is a major ferry port with links to dover. french name ostende /ɔstɑ̃d/.

Meanings of Ostensible:

adjective

Stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.

Usage examples:

The real dispute which lay behind the ostensible complaint

Meanings of Ostensibly:

adverb

As appears or is stated to be true, though not necessarily so; apparently.

Usage examples:

The party secretary resigned, ostensibly from ill health

Meanings of Ostension:

noun

The action of showing, exhibiting, or making manifest; exhibition, display, manifestation; an instance of this.

Meanings of Ostensive:

adjective

Directly demonstrative.

Usage examples:

Those results are ostensive evidence implying the contribution of apparent motion mechanisms to ilm…