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arm bone

arm bone is the alternative spelling of armbone.

Meaning of armbone

Noun

armbone (plural armbones)

  1. A bone in the arm, specifically, the humerus.
    • Before their wondering eyes they saw him suddenly wrench the ogre's arm backward and snap the armbone from the shoulder.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 31

Forms of arm bone

pluralarm bones

Questions about arm bone

What is arm bone the alternative spelling of?
Arm bone is the alternative spelling of armbone.

Words near arm bone in the dictionary

  1. Arlts
  2. Arlyssa
  3. arm
  4. arm ball
  5. arm balls
  6. arm bone
  7. arm bones
  8. arm candy
  9. arm day
  10. arm days
  11. arm garter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arm bone (page history and authors); armbone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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