boneletn.
/ˈbəʊnlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈboʊnlət/ΘΚΠ
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seedOE
bonelet1787
1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. Families of Plants II. 705 Seeds [of Juniperus] three bonelets, convex on one side, angular on the other, oblong.
2. A small bone or calcified cartilage; an ossicle.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > types of bones > [noun]
ossicle1578
ossiculum1578
sucking-bone1648
master-bone1677
key-bone1791
bonelet1833
bladelet1859
interhaemal1880
1833 tr. A. von Humboldt in Field Naturalist 1 340 These posterior bonelets [Fr. osselets] might be likened to the arytenoid cartilages.
1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 90 The carpal bonelets of the pectoral fins.
1894 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Nov. 1169/1 These bonelets [of the middle ear] play but a small and a secondary rôle in the pathology of the disease.
1914 Zeitschr. f. Morphol. u. Anthropol. 14 546 The fontanelle gap appears to be made good by the deposition of one ossific centre, which has resulted in an azygos bonelet,..probably Wormian in character.
1941 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 378 In Polymixia the median hypural bonelet has a serration.
2002 Paleobiology 28 290/1 The question whether the separate bonelet in the cheek of Salamandrella actually constitutes a quadratojugal cannot be answered at present.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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