Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nasal bone

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English

Syllables
nasal bone
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity.

Inflected Forms

nasal bones (plural) nasal (alternative)

Synonyms

nasal os nasale

Questions

What does nasal bone mean?
Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity.

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