单词 | rump-bone |
释义 | rump-bonen. Chiefly Zoology. Now rare. Any of various bones of the rump or hindquarters, spec. (a) a bone at the base of the spine; the coccyx, sacrum, or (in birds) the pygostyle; †(b) a bone in an animal's tail, a caudal vertebra (obsolete); (c) the part of the pelvis forming the bone of the buttock or rump, the ischial tuberosity. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > coccyx coccyx1615 rump-bone1615 cuckoo-bone1668 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 493 In Dogs and Apes there are three coniugations proceeding out of the Coccyx or rump-bone. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 188 Then what can better represent, Than this Rump-bone, the Parliament? 1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide vi. 109 The Rump-bones are in Number eighteen, and are joined to each other by an intervening Cartilage, or Gristle; but so loosely, that a Horse can move his Tail which way he pleases. 1739 G. Thomson Compend. Anat. 6 in Syllabus The spine consists of twenty-four bones, besides the sacred and rump-bones. 1760 Read's Weekly Jrnl. 18 Oct. 4/3 That the wounds (one of which was upon the rump bone, and the other at a small distance) were not, nor could possibly be, the cause of her death. 1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 676/1 His very tail a bare stump, nothing to hide his sharp rump-bones. 1852 E. J. Lewis Youatt's Dog (new ed.) 182/1 (caption) Os sacrum, or rump-bone. 1857 Times 2 Nov. 12/1 I was playing with some children on Artichoke-hill, when I fell over a boy's foot and struck myself on the rump bone. 1908 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Agric. III. 352/1 The rump-bones [should be] wide apart and well up, so as not to present a drooping appearance. 2007 L. M. Chiappe Glorified Dinosaurs vi. 158/1 The beginning of vertebral fusion to form a pygostyle—the rump-bone at the end of the spine of short-tailed birds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1615 |
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