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(coccyxes) Note: The plural 'coccyges' is used in American English. The coccyx is the small triangular bone at the lower end of the spine in human beings and some apes. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural coccyges; also ~es) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek kokkyx cuckoo, ~; from its resemblance to a cuckoo's beak Date: 1615 a small bone that articulates with the sacrum and that usually consists of four fused vertebrae which form the terminus of the spinal column in humans and tailless apes ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. coccyges or coccyxes) the small triangular bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and some apes. Derivatives coccygeal adj. Etymology: L f. Gk kokkux -ugos cuckoo (from being shaped like its bill) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1615, from Gk. kokkyx "cuckoo" (from kokku, like the bird's Eng. name echoic of its cry), so called by ancient Gk. physician Galen because the bone resembles a cuckoo's beak. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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