MEANING
Bony or consisting of bone tissue.
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- osseous growth
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An osseous growth narrowed the passage.
The creature had an osseous plate beneath its skin.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a morphological or medical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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