Clavicle

Quick meaning: Clavicle is a noun meaning (zoology) A bone in fish.

Meaning

(zoology) A bone in fish.

More Meanings

1. (anatomy) The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.
2. (obsolete, conchology) The upper part of a spiral shell.

Example Sentences

And you worked a lot too. You were thin from biking around all day; your protruding clavicles collected rainwater.

Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and, when Mr. Ornato had recounted the story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.

The Voluta is a ſimple ſhell, having no hinge, formed of one piece, and of a figure approaching to conic, but short; the clavicle being uſually depreſſed, in all very ſhort: the mouth is long, perpendicular, and narrow: the animal inhabiting this ſhell is a limax.

Word Forms

• clavicles
• clavicula

Synonyms for clavicle

Depending on context, synonyms include collarbone.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include collarbone, wishbone, breastbone, supraclavicle, interclavicle, subclavius.

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