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Costa

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Cos·ta  (kôst, -tä), Lúcio 1902-1998.
Brazilian architect. Heavily influenced by Le Corbusier and by Bauhaus design, he rose to fame after his airplane-shaped plan was selected for Brasília, the new capital of Brazil, in 1957.

cos·ta  (kst)
n. pl. cos·tae (-t) Biology
A rib or a riblike part, such as the midrib of a leaf or a thickened anterior vein or margin of an insect's wing.

[Latin; see kost- in Indo-European roots.]

costal adj.

costa [ˈkɒstə]
n pl -tae [-tiː]
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) the technical name for rib1 [1]
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) a riblike part, such as the midrib of a plant leaf
[from Latin: rib, side, wall]
costal  adj

costa  (kst)
Plural costae (kst)
A rib or a riblike part, such as the midrib of a leaf or a thickened anterior vein or margin of an insect's wing.

costa - A rib or riblike structure.
See also related terms for rib.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.costa - a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure"
2.costa - any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)
craniate, vertebrate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
bone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
true rib - one of the first seven ribs in a human being which attach to the sternum
costal cartilage - the cartilages that connect the sternum and the ends of the ribs; its elasticity allows the chest to move in respiration


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The other day da Costa got the cook to fry a steak for him--a turtle steak it was too, not beef at all--and the fat caught or some thing.
He ran aft, drew in the sheet, and filled on the long tack toward the Contra Costa Hills.
At an altitude of five hundred feet, the pigeon drove on over the town of Berkeley and lifted its flight to the Contra Costa hills.
 
 
 
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