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breast bone

breast bone is the alternative spelling of breastbone.

Meaning of breastbone

Noun

breastbone (plural breastbones)

  1. The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.
    • He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part
    Synonyms:
    sternum

Forms of breast bone

pluralbreast bones

Questions about breast bone

What is breast bone the alternative spelling of?
Breast bone is the alternative spelling of breastbone.

Words near breast bone in the dictionary

  1. Breartons
  2. Breas
  3. breast
  4. breast augmentation
  5. breast augmentations
  6. breast bone
  7. breast bones
  8. breast boobily
  9. breast cancer
  10. breast cancers
  11. breast cleavage

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