OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 23379

rib

/ɹɪb/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
costilla
Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.
On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a p…
costilla
A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
a broken rib on the umbrella
costillar
A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
costilla • cuaderna
Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
costilla
Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
costilla
The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
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