osselet

English

Etymology

French

Noun

osselet (plural osselets)

  1. A little bone.
  2. (zoology) The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

French

Etymology

From Old French ossel + -et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔ.slɛ/

Noun

osselet m (plural osselets)

  1. small bone; (of the ear) ossicle
  2. jack, knucklebone

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