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osseous

/ˈɒsi.əs/

osseous adjective: of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.

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Adjective

osseous (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.
    • One of Hecker's successors at the honest task of baking was Peter M. Baldwin, known to all as the 'General' — a tall, spare, osseous sort of man, built on the large Western plan, and thought to resemble Andrew Jackson.1900, Lindsay Swift, Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, New York: The MacMillan Company, page 120
    • It could be some kind of inception based advertising campaign… make people feel vulnerable so that they want to summon some osseous defenders?2020, Kazerad, Katia: Inquire, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), September 18 2020

osseous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic

osseous in Tamil

அத்திய எலும்புசார், எலும்பாலாய, எலும்பைப்போன்ற

osseous in Urdu

ہڈی دار

osseous in Bengali

হাড়ের মতো

osseous in Arabic

relating to bone
عَظْمِيّ ʕaẓmiyy
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osseous in Persian
استخوانی ostoxâni

Origin of osseous

Borrowed from Latin osseus (“bony, (attributive) bone”), from os (“bone”) + -eus.

Words formed from osseous

Questions about osseous

What does osseous mean?
Osseous means of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.
What is osseous in Tamil?
Osseous in Tamil is அத்திய எலும்புசார், எலும்பாலாய, எலும்பைப்போன்ற. See Osseous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is osseous?
Osseous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce osseous?
Osseous is pronounced /ˈɒsi.əs/.

Words near osseous in the dictionary

  1. osseomuscular
  2. osseomusculocutaneous
  3. osseoperception
  4. osseophilic
  5. osseoseptocutaneous
  6. osseous
  7. osseous labyrinth
  8. osseous tissue
  9. osseously
  10. osses
  11. Osset

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: osseous (page history and authors); osseous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); osseous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); osseous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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