clavicle
/ˈklæv.ɪk.əl/
clavicle noun: the collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.
Noun
clavicle (plural clavicles)
- The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.
- Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and, when Mr. Ornato had recounted the story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.2022 June 28, Cassidy Hutchinson, 0:47 from the start, in Secret Service officials: Agents willing to dispute Trump SUV incident under oath, CNN
- And you worked a lot too. You were thin from biking around all day; your protruding clavicles collected rainwater.2022, Ling Ma, “Yeti Lovemaking”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- collarbone
- A bone in fish.
- The upper part of a spiral shell.
- The Voluta is a ſimple ſhell, having no hinge, formed of one piece, and of a figure approaching to conic, but short; the clavicle being uſually depreſſed, in all very ſhort: the mouth is long, perpendicular, and narrow: the animal inhabiting this ſhell is a limax.1752, John Hill, “Voluta”, in An History of Animals. […], London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, […], →OCLC, page 137
clavicle meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
clavicle in Hindi
- collar bone
- हंसली hanslī
clavicle in Tamil
- collar bone
- காறை எலும்பு kāṟai elumpu
clavicle in Bengali
- clavicle, collarbone
- কণ্ঠা konṭha
clavicle in Telugu
- collar bone
- జత్రుక jatruka, జత్రువు jatruvu
More languagesFewer languages
- clavicle in Kannada
- ಕೊರಳೆಲುಬು, ಕತ್ತಿನ ಮೂಳೆ
- clavicle in Gujarati
- હાંસડી hā̃sḍī
- clavicle in Assamese
- কাচিহাড় kasihar
- clavicle in Tagalog
- balagat
- clavicle in Arabic
- تَرْقُوَة tarquwa
- clavicle in Malay
- tulang selangka, klavikel, tulang cenak
- clavicle in Indonesian
- tulang selangka, tulang cenak, klavikula
- clavicle in Thai
- กระดูกไหปลาร้า grà-dùuk-hǎi-bplaa-ráa
- clavicle in Vietnamese
- xương đòn, xương quai xanh
- clavicle in Myanmar
- ညှပ်ရို hnyap-rui
- Dhivehi
- ކޮނޑުކަށި koⁿḍukaṣi
Synonyms of clavicle
Forms of clavicle
| plural | clavicles |
|---|---|
| alternative form | clavicula |
Origin of clavicle
Borrowed from Middle French clavicule, from Latin clāvicula (“a small key”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”).
Words formed from clavicle
Words that rhyme with clavicle
Questions about clavicle
- What does clavicle mean?
- Clavicle means the collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.
- What is clavicle in Hindi?
- Clavicle in Hindi is हंसली (hanslī). See Clavicle meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is clavicle?
- Clavicle is a noun.
- How do you pronounce clavicle?
- Clavicle is pronounced /ˈklæv.ɪk.əl/.
- What is the plural of clavicle?
- The plural of clavicle is clavicles.
Words near clavicle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: clavicle (page history and authors); কণ্ঠা (Bengali) (page history and authors); clavicle (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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