What is the meaning of Ossicle?

  • (n.) One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.
  • (n.) A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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