osseous

English

Adjective

osseous (not comparable)

Of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.

"One of Hecker's successors at the honest task of baking was Peter M. Baldwin, known to all as the 'General'--a tall, spare, osseous sort of man, built on the large Western plan, and thought to resemble Andrew Jackson." Lindsay Swift, Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, p. 120 (The MacMillan Company, New York, 1900).

Derived terms

Translations

relating to bone

Catalan: ossi (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 骨（的） (gǔ (de))
Finnish: luu- (fi) (consisting of bone tissue), luinen (fi) (made of bone)
French: osseux (fr)
German: knöchern (de)
Ido: ostala (io)

Latin: osseus
Persian: استخوانی‎ (fa)
Portuguese: ósseo (pt)
Romanian: osos (ro)
Russian: ко́стный (ru) (kóstnyj)
Spanish: óseo (es)

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