malleus

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.
  2. The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
  3. One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈmæl.i.əs/
Etimologie (Engels)

From Latin malleus (“hammer, mallet”). Doublet of maul.

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