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COSTA
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Irregular inflected form: costae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)
Synonyms:
costa; rib
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("costa" is a kind of...):
bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)
Meronyms (parts of "costa"):
costal cartilage (the cartilages that connect the sternum and the ends of the ribs; its elasticity allows the chest to move in respiration)
Domain category:
craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "costa"):
true rib (one of the first seven ribs in a human being which attach to the sternum)
Holonyms ("costa" is a part of...):
craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)
Derivation:
costal (of or relating to or near a rib)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("costa" is a kind of...):
anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)
Derivation:
costal (of or relating to or near a rib)