ossicone

See also: ossicône

English

Etymology

From Latin os (“bone”) and Middle French cone, from Latin cōnus (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɒsɪkəʊn/

Noun

ossicone (plural ossicones)

  1. Either of the horn-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes and male okapi. Some extinct species in the family bore antler-like ossicones.
    • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 27:
      The Kanapoi Sivatherium has two pairs of ossicones, above the eye and between the ears, and neither is diminutive.

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