osseous

1. 1.

   composed of or containing bone

   “osseous tissue”

   Synonymsostealbony

Questions about osseous

What does osseous mean?

osseous means "composed of or containing bone".

How many syllables are in osseous?

osseous has 3 syllables: os-se-ous. The stress falls on "se".

What is another word for osseous?

Close synonyms include osteal, bony. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is osseous a common word?

osseous 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.