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ossicones

ossicones is the plural of ossicone.

Meaning of ossicone

Noun

ossicone (plural ossicones)

  1. Either of the horn-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes and male okapi. Some extinct species in the family bore antler-like ossicones.
    • The Kanapoi Sivatherium has two pairs of ossicones, above the eye and between the ears, and neither is diminutive.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 27

Questions about ossicones

What is ossicones the plural of?
Ossicones is the plural of ossicone.

Words near ossicones in the dictionary

  1. ossibuprocaine
  2. ossicle
  3. ossicles
  4. ossicone
  5. ossiconed
  6. ossicones
  7. ossicula
  8. ossicular
  9. ossicule
  10. ossiculectomies
  11. ossiculectomy

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