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osseous

adjective/ˈɒsi.əs/

What It Means

Of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.

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Osseous in Context

“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

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

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