ossicone

Ossicones of a living male Giraffe.

Meaning

Noun

  • Either of the horn-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes and male okapi. Some extinct species in the family bore antler-like ossicones.

Origin

  • From Latin os and Middle French cone, from Latin cōnus, from Ancient Greek κῶνος

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