FURCULA (furculae)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: furculae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does furcula mean? 

• FURCULA (noun)
  The noun FURCULA has 1 sense:

1. a forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles of most birds

  Familiarity information: FURCULA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURCULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles of most birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("furcula" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "furcula"):

wishbone; wishing bone (the furcula of a domestic fowl)

Holonyms ("furcula" is a part of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)