The Collaborative International Dictionary
Innominate \In*nom"i*nate\, a. [L. innominatus; pref. in- not + nominare to name.]
Having no name; unnamed; as, an innominate person or place. [R.]
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(Anat.) A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava.
Innominate bone (Anat.), the great bone which makes a lateral half of the pelvis in mammals; hip bone; haunch bone; huckle bone. It is composed of three bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis, consolidated into one in the adult, though separate in the fetus, as also in many adult reptiles and amphibians.
Innominate contracts (Law), in the Roman law, contracts without a specific name.
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) The hip bone.
WordNet
n. large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis [syn: hipbone]
Usage examples of "innominate bone".
The acetabulum was instead the rounded concavity in the innominate bone that formed the hip joint in conjunction with the femur, which sounded like a jungle cat but was another bone.
And, through the thin blue skirt, the hint of the innominate bone—.
And, through the thin blue skirt, the hint of the innominate bone-a fusion of the ilium, the ischium, the pubis.