short bone

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   a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions

   Synonymsos breve

   Broaderbone

Questions about short bone

What does short bone mean?

short bone means "a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions".

What is another word for short bone?

Close synonyms include os breve. 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 short bone a common word?

short bone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.