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osseus

osseus is the misspelling of osseous.

Meaning of osseous

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

Questions about osseus

What is osseus the misspelling of?
Osseus is the misspelling of osseous.

Words near osseus in the dictionary

  1. Ossetins
  2. Ossetish
  3. ossetra
  4. Ossets
  5. Ossett
  6. osseus
  7. Ossewabrandwag
  8. ossi-
  9. ossia
  10. Ossian
  11. Ossianesque

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