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Skeleton parts
Answer for the clue "Skeleton parts ", 6 letters:
sterna
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs [syn: breastbone ] [also: sterna (pl)]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sterna is a genus of seabirds. Sterna may also refer to: Sterna, the plural of sternum , the breastbone Sterna, Argolis , Greece Sterna, Drama , Greece Sterna, Evros , Greece Sterna Island , a small island off Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (plural of sternum English) n. (plural of sternum English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sternum \Ster"num\, n.; pl. L. Sterna , E. Sternums . [NL., from Gr. ?, the breast, chest.] (Anat.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; ...
Usage examples of sterna.
They had made port in Oy sterna ven, but the boat had sunk at dockside.
Duke-not that much, anyway, but Sterna would have given Colaris all the fields on the north side of the Ohyde River, almost the whole Ohyde Valley, and then where would we have been?