cannon bone

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   greatly developed metatarsal or metacarpal bone in the shank or cannon part of the leg in hoofed mammals

   Broaderbone

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Questions about cannon bone

What does cannon bone mean?

cannon bone means "greatly developed metatarsal or metacarpal bone in the shank or cannon part of the leg in hoofed mammals".

Is cannon bone a common word?

cannon bone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.