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clavicles

clavicles is the plural of clavicle.

Meaning of clavicle

Noun

clavicle (plural clavicles)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    collarbone
  2. A bone in fish.
  3. (obsolete) 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

Questions about clavicles

What is clavicles the plural of?
Clavicles is the plural of clavicle.

Words near clavicles in the dictionary

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

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