Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

innominate bone

/ɪˌnɑmɪnət ˈboʊn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.38 in modern English

Syllables: in-nom-in-ate bone
IPA: /ɪˌnɑmɪnət ˈboʊn/

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of hip bone (“one of two roughly symmetrical parts of the skeleton, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial, and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis”).

Example Sentences

"From this second junction or plexus beneath the gluteus maximum muscle, are given usually three cutaneous nerves to the integument of the buttock: all these perforate the gluteus; one being found near the posterior superior spine of the innominate bone, another, the largest, near the end of the sacrum, and the remaining one being intermediate between the other two."
"On its sides, in the upper two-thirds of its extent, the sacrum is closely united to the two pelvic or innominate''' bones, which, together with it, enclose a basin or cavity, called the pelvis. Examined in early life, each innominate bone is seen to consist of three parts, which meet at the articular cup, called the acetabulum, for the head of the thigh bone."
"A partial innominate bone (Z8623) is known from the original collections[…], but it was probably from a juvenile individual, since the sutures between the ischium and iliac portions of the innominate are not completely fused up; the suture is unfused even within the acetabulum."

Etymology

From innominate (“having no name, nameless, unnamed”, adjective) + bone (noun), possibly a calque of Late Latin os innōminātum. It has been suggested that the bone “remains unnamed and unnameable” because it “is of so complex and irregular a form, that it bears no perceptible resemblance to any other known object”.

Word Breakdown

Root: *bʰeyh₂-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɪˌnɑmɪnət ˈboʊn/
British English: /ɪˌnɒmɪnət ˈbəʊn/

Inflected Forms

innominate bones (plural)

Phrases

innominate artery innominate vein

Frequently Paired Words

innominate artery innominate vein

Synonyms

innominate innominatum os coxae os innominatum hip bone hipbone

Rhymes With

one own known phone alone none shown stone zone loan grown green zone

Questions

How do you pronounce innominate bone?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪˌnɑmɪnət ˈboʊn/.
What does innominate bone mean?: Synonym of hip bone (“one of two roughly symmetrical parts of the skeleton, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial, and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis”).
Where does innominate bone come from?: From innominate (“having no name, nameless, unnamed”, adjective) + bone (noun), possibly a calque of Late Latin os innōminātum. It has been suggested that the bone “remains unnamed and unnameable” because it “is of so complex and irregular a form, that it bears no perceptible resemblance to any other known object”.

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