Costa
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)
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Senses
Wordset Dictionary
a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- rib
- plural
- Costas
- possessive
- Costa's
- pluralpossessive
- Costas'