wrist bone

Questions about wrist bone

What does wrist bone mean?

wrist bone means "any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates".

What is another word for wrist bone?

Close synonyms include carpal bone, carpal. 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 wrist bone a common word?

wrist 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.