rongeur
English
Etymology
French rongeur, from ronger (“to gnaw”).
Noun
rongeur (plural rongeurs)
- (surgery) An instrument for removing small rough portions of bone.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “rongeur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
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Noun
rongeur m (plural rongeurs)
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Further reading
- “rongeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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