sutural bone

1. 1.

   any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones

   SynonymsWormian bone

   Broaderbone

Questions about sutural bone

What does sutural bone mean?

sutural bone means "any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones".

What is another word for sutural bone?

Close synonyms include Wormian bone. 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 sutural bone a common word?

sutural 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.