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collar-bone

collar-bone is the alternative spelling of collarbone.

Meaning of collarbone

Noun

collarbone (plural collarbones)

  1. The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.
    • The pragmatic journalist’s daughter would, and did, explain these “memories” as the work of an imagination hypersensitized by her father’s recent death, but a detail in one letter will not be dismissed. Robert Frobisher mentions a comet-shaped birthmark between his shoulder blade and collarbone.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 120
    Synonyms:
    clavicle

Forms of collar-bone

pluralcollar-bones

Questions about collar-bone

What is collar-bone the alternative spelling of?
Collar-bone is the alternative spelling of collarbone.

Words near collar-bone in the dictionary

  1. collar studs
  2. collar tab
  3. collar tabs
  4. collar the bowling
  5. collar up
  6. collar-bone
  7. collar-bones
  8. collar-button
  9. collar-button abscess
  10. collar-button abscesses
  11. collar-buttons

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