exosseous
English
Etymology
Adjective
exosseous (not comparable)
- (archaic, literal or figurative) boneless
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- snails, a soft and exosseous animal
References
- “exosseous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.