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osseous

adjective as in bony

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By April, the team had found a multitude of small metal fragments consistent with a crash as well as “osseous material” — teeth and bones.

“And so I began the poem, ‘Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower,’” she told the AP.

It may be rather obvious by now that I'm rather besotted with all things osseous.

From BBC

The osseous labyrinth may be regarded as an osseous mould in the petrous portion of the temporal bone, lined by tesselated endothelium, and containing a small quantity of fluid called the perilymph.

I poke the porkers thoughtfully with a stick in the place where their ribs should be, but they are of such an abbatical plumpness that my ferrule fails to discover any “osseous structure.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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