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collarbones

collarbones is the plural 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

Questions about collarbones

What is collarbones the plural of?
Collarbones is the plural of collarbone.

Words near collarbones in the dictionary

  1. collar-buttons
  2. collar-work
  3. collarable
  4. collarbone
  5. collarboned
  6. collarbones
  7. collarbutton
  8. collarbuttons
  9. collard
  10. collard greens
  11. collards

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