English Explanatory Dictionary

innominate bone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of hip bone (“one of two roughly symmetrical parts of the skeleton, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial, and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis”).

Pronunciation

/ɪˌnɒmɪnət ˈbəʊn/ /ɪˌnɑmɪnət ˈboʊn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-innominate bone.wav

Word forms

innominate bone innominate bones

Etymology

From innominate (“having no name, nameless, unnamed”, adjective) + bone (noun), possibly a calque of Late Latin os innōminātum. It has been suggested that the bone “remains unnamed and unnameable” because it “is of so complex and irregular a form, that it bears no perceptible resemblance to any other known object”.

Synonyms

innominate innominatum os coxae os innominatum hip bone

Related words

innominate artery innominate vein
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