English Explanatory Dictionary

cross-bone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The sacrum.

Word forms

cross-bone cross-bones

Etymology

From cross + bone, a calque of German Kreuzbein (“sacrum”).

Related words

crossbones
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