ossicone
Meanings
noun
- Either of the horn-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes and male okapi. Some extinct species in the family bore antler-like ossicones.
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Etymology
From Latin os (“bone”) and Middle French cone, from Latin cōnus (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”).
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