metapodiale

English

Noun

metapodiale (plural metapodialia)

1. (anatomy) One of the bones of either the metacarpus or metatarsus.
   • 1907, William Corless Mills, Explorations of the Edwin Harness mound, page 56:

     The bone usually employed in making the needle was the metapodiale bone of the deer and elk.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “metapodiale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)