metacarpal bone

Questions about metacarpal bone

What is another word for metacarpal bone?

It depends which metacarpal bone you mean. In the sense “any bone of the hand between the wrist and fingers”, the synonyms are metacarpal. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of metacarpal bone?

WordNet records no antonym for metacarpal bone. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for metacarpal bone come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of metacarpal bone

• Full entry for metacarpal boneAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for metacarpal boneWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.