Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
osteologic .
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- adjective Of or relating to
osteology .
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Examples
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The osteological remnants of these toes can be found in the foot bones of modern horses.
Tracking Equine Evolution Mark Yost 2011
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They are currently studying the osteological remains for indications of trauma, which would perhaps point to a mass persecution rather than disease, but have found no such evidence.
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The collection of osteological material from Machu Picchu.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Monophyly and phylogeny of cuckoos (Aves, Cuculidae) inferred from osteological characters.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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In a study of osteological and soft-tissue characters, Mayr & Clarke (2003) also found gruiforms to be polyphyletic: rails, trumpeters and cranes (referred to from hereon as the ‘gruiform core’) were one of the most basal groups within Neoaves, bustards were without close relatives, and seriemas formed a clade with … .. hoatzins.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006
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Monophyly and phylogeny of cuckoos (Aves, Cuculidae) inferred from osteological characters.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006
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In a study of osteological and soft-tissue characters, Mayr & Clarke (2003) also found gruiforms to be polyphyletic: rails, trumpeters and cranes (referred to from hereon as the ‘gruiform core’) were one of the most basal groups within Neoaves, bustards were without close relatives, and seriemas formed a clade with … .. hoatzins.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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A new species of Nesolagus (Lagomorpha, Leporidae) from Vietnam with osteological description.
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Response directed at Mike: the 'fossa' I was referring to is not the osteological concavity that you are thinking of, but the Madagascan euplerid carnivoran Cryptoprocta ferox.
Giant hoatzins of doom Darren Naish 2006
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The result of the combined exertions of Messrs. Savage and Wilson was not only the obtaining of a very full account of the habits of this new creature, but a still more important service to science, the enabling the excellent American anatomist already mentioned, Professor Wyman, to describe, from ample materials, the distinctive osteological characters of the new form.
Essays 2007
chained_bear commented on the word osteological
The rails and the coot "were fascinating objects in their mere outward form, but they also promised osteological peculiarities..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Truelove, 156
March 11, 2008