BONELET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bonelet mean? 

• BONELET (noun)
  The noun BONELET has 1 sense:

1. a small bone; especially one in the middle ear

  Familiarity information: BONELET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONELET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small bone; especially one in the middle ear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

bonelet; ossicle; ossiculum

Hypernyms ("bonelet" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bonelet"):

auditory ossicle (ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear)

Holonyms ("bonelet" is a part of...):

middle ear; tympanic cavity; tympanum (the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear)

Derivation:

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

bone (the porous calcified substance from which bones are made)