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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Either of two large flat bones each forming one of the lateral halves of the pelvis and consisting of the fused ilium, ischium, and pubis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The ischium, or inferior part of the pelvis on each side: loosely extended to the whole innominate bone which forms each side of the pelvis, and to the upper part of the thigh-bone. Also called haunch-bone.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Either of two large flaring bones, each forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun anatomy Alternative spelling of hip bone.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis

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