osseous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   consisting of, containing, or relating to bone

   The fossil animal was protected by an osseous coat divided into plates.

Common collocations

• osseous tissue Adjective + noun

Borrowed from Latin osseus ("bony"), from oss-, the stem of os ("bone"). It is related to Greek osteon ("bone"), which appears in English medical and biological words beginning with osteo-.

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