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osseous

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os·se·ous  (s-s)
adj.
Composed of, containing, or resembling bone; bony.

[From Latin osseus, from os, oss-, bone; see ost- in Indo-European roots.]

osse·ous·ly adv.

osseous
Adjective
consisting of or like bone [Latin os bone]
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Adj.1.osseous - composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue"


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Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous post-diluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.
Sixthly, a large animal, with an osseous coat in compartments, very like that of an armadillo.
 
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