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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a small bone; especially one in the middle ear;
[syn: ossicle, bonelet, ossiculum]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ossicle \Os"si*cle\, n. [L. ossiculum, dim. of os, ossis, a bone.] 1. A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ossicle n 1: a small bone; especially one in the middle ear [syn: ossicle, bonelet, ossiculum]