osseous
Adjective
Meaning
Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.
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Examples
A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.
osseous tissue
Thylacines, uniquely for marsupials, have largely cartilaginous epipubic bones with a highly reduced osseous element.
In some cases, underlying words can also be determined from the pattern of their letters; for example, attract, osseous, and words with those two as the root are the only common English words with the pattern ABBCADB.
The primary tissue of bone, bone tissue (osseous tissue), is relatively hard and lightweight.
The term "osseous", and the prefix "osteo-", referring to things related to bone, are still used commonly today.