FURCULA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: furculae

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)