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clavicled

clavicled adjective: having a clavicle or clavicles; (in combination) having a specified kind of clavicle.

Adjective

clavicled (not comparable)

  1. Having a clavicle or clavicles; (in combination) having a specified kind of clavicle.
    • Of thoſe which have the body of the ſhell beſet with tubercles and ſpines, there are, beſide the before deſcribed, 1. The Murex, with a depreſſed clavicle, the body covered with large, black ſpines. 2. The long, clavicled, greyiſh Murex, with black ſpines, and a plicated ſurface between them.1752, John Hill, “Murex”, in An History of Animals. […], London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, […], →OCLC, page 146
    • He was with an older man who looked like a film star and one of those glamorous, sharp-clavicled Hollywood women whose faces set at forty-four and don't change until they die.2012, Hester Browne, The Runaway Princess, New York, NY: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 110
    Synonyms:
    collarboned

Synonyms of clavicled

Origin of clavicled

From clavicle + -ed.

Questions about clavicled

What does clavicled mean?
Clavicled means having a clavicle or clavicles; (in combination) having a specified kind of clavicle.
What part of speech is clavicled?
Clavicled is an adjective.

Words near clavicled in the dictionary

  1. clavicipitoids
  2. clavicitheria
  3. clavicitherium
  4. clavicitheriums
  5. clavicle
  6. clavicled
  7. clavicles
  8. clavicor
  9. clavicorn
  10. clavicorns
  11. clavicors

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