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    SPHENOID BONE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skullplay

    Synonyms:

    os sphenoidale; sphenoid; sphenoid bone

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    Nouns denoting body parts

    Hypernyms ("sphenoid bone" is a kind of...):

    bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

    Meronyms (parts of "sphenoid bone"):

    crotaphion (the tip of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone)

    pterygoid process (two bony processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone)

    Holonyms ("sphenoid bone" is a part of...):

    skull (the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates)

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