pinion bone
rare
noun
Each of the bones of the terminal segment of a bird's wing; the carpal, metacarpal, and phalangeal bones together, as removed when a bird is pinioned.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
- insistently
- in situ
- in small doses
- insobriety
- insofar
- in so far as
- (in) so far as (or that)
- insol.
- insolation
- insole
- insolence
- insolent
- insolently
- insolubilise
- insolubility
- insolubilize
- insoluble
- insolubly
- insolvable
- insolvency
- insolvent
- in so many words
- in someone's bad (or good) books
- in someone's black books
- in someone's confidence