osselet
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
osselet (countable and uncountable, plural osselets)
- A little bone.
- (zoology) The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish.
- A hard substance growing on the inside of a horse's knee.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 osselet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French ossel + -et, from Late Latin ossiculum.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
osselet m (plural osselets)
- small bone; (of the ear) ossicle
- jack, knucklebone
Further reading[edit]
- “osselet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Zoology
- Webster 1913
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Late Latin
- French terms derived from Late Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Skeleton
