clavicle
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Definition of clavicle
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.
“Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and, when Mr. Ornato had recounted the story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.”
“And you worked a lot too. You were thin from biking around all day; your protruding clavicles collected rainwater.”
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noun
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The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.
“Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and, when Mr. Ornato had recounted the story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.”
“And you worked a lot too. You were thin from biking around all day; your protruding clavicles collected rainwater.”
- A bone in fish.
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(obsolete)The upper part of a spiral shell.
“The Voluta is a ſimple ſhell, having no hinge, formed of one piece, and of a figure approaching to conic, but short; the clavicle being uſually depreſſed, in all very ſhort: the mouth is long, perpendicular, and narrow: the animal inhabiting this ſhell is a limax.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French clavicule, from Latin clāvicula (“a small key”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”).
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