"quadrate bone" meaning in English

See quadrate bone in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: quadrate bones [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} quadrate bone (plural quadrate bones)
  1. (anatomy) A bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates other than mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the incus. Categories (topical): Skeleton
    Sense id: en-quadrate_bone-en-noun-3Za4HtM8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quadrate bones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quadrate bone (plural quadrate bones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Skeleton",
          "orig": "en:Skeleton",
          "parents": [
            "Body parts",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "All topics",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences",
            "Healthcare",
            "Health"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates other than mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the incus."
      ],
      "id": "en-quadrate_bone-en-noun-3Za4HtM8",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "vertebrate",
          "vertebrate"
        ],
        [
          "mammal",
          "mammal"
        ],
        [
          "reptile",
          "reptile"
        ],
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "articulate",
          "articulate"
        ],
        [
          "incus",
          "incus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) A bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates other than mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the incus."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quadrate bone"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quadrate bones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quadrate bone (plural quadrate bones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Skeleton"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates other than mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the incus."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "vertebrate",
          "vertebrate"
        ],
        [
          "mammal",
          "mammal"
        ],
        [
          "reptile",
          "reptile"
        ],
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "articulate",
          "articulate"
        ],
        [
          "incus",
          "incus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) A bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates other than mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the incus."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quadrate bone"
}

Download raw JSONL data for quadrate bone meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.