Furculum

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as furcula, 1.
  • Word Usage
    "They lack true eyes, do not possess wings and have, protruding from their abdomens, a "spring tail," called a furculum, (after the Latin word for fork) which is held in place by two tiny hooks."