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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 and elbow
  2. collar beam
  3. collar beams
  4. collar bomb
  5. collar bombs
  6. collar bone
  7. collar bones
  8. collar button
  9. collar buttons
  10. collar counties
  11. collar county

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