furculum
English
Etymology
Latin, diminutive of Latin furca a fork.
Noun
furculum (plural furcula)
- (anatomy) The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “furculum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)