Vomer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A thin flat bone forming the inferior and posterior part of the nasal septum and dividing the nostrils in most vertebrates.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
  • n. The pygostyle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A genus of carangoid fishes found in warm seas.
  • n. In zoology and anatomy, a bone of the skull of most vertebrates; a membrane-bone or splint-bone developed in the median line of the skull, beneath the basicranial axis, primitively consisting of paired halves, which sometimes remain separate, one on each side of the middle line.
  • n. In ornithology, the pygostyle or rump-post; the large, peculiarly shaped terminal bone of the tail of most birds, consisting of several ankylosed vertebræ. See cut under pygostyle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. thin trapezoidal bone of the skull forming the posterior and inferior parts of the nasal septum
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