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单词 rump-bone
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rump-bonen.

Brit. /ˈrʌmpbəʊn/, U.S. /ˈrəmpˌboʊn/
Forms: see rump n.1 and bone n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rump n.1, bone n.1
Etymology: < rump n.1 + bone n.1
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.
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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).
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