incus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
An accessory cloud in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.

/ˈɪŋ.kəs/

incus incudes

Borrowed from Latin incūs (“anvil”).

anvil thunderhead

incudal

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