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CROTAPHION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crotaphion mean?
• CROTAPHION (noun)
The noun CROTAPHION has 1 sense:
1. the tip of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone
Familiarity information: CROTAPHION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The tip of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("crotaphion" is a kind of...):
craniometric point (a landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken)
Holonyms ("crotaphion" is a part of...):
os sphenoidale; sphenoid; sphenoid bone (butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull)
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