ossa

¹ American  

[os-uh] / ˈɒs ə /

noun

1. plural of os.

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Ossa ² American  

[os-uh] / ˈɒs ə /

noun

1. a mountain in E Greece, in Thessaly. 6,490 feet (1,978 meters).

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Ossa ¹ British  

/ ˈɒsə /

noun

1. a mountain in NE Greece, in E Thessaly: famous in mythology for the attempt of the twin giants, Otus and Ephialtes, to reach heaven by piling Ossa on Olympus and Pelion on Ossa. Height: 1978 m (6489 ft)

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ossa ² British  

/ ˈɒsə /

noun

1. the plural of os 2

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Example Sentences

An I.N.S. photographer found McCarthy propped up in bed in blue pajamas, swathed in bandages from his tuberositas deltoidea to his ossa metacarpalia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since Michelangelo's great paintings were at Rome the Florentines copied chiefly his statues, devoting themselves principally, as Lanzi says, to ostentatiously showing "magna ossa lacertosque."

From Michelangelo by Rolland, Romain

The angle of union of the ossa pubis in the male is from sixty to eighty degrees, whereas, in the female it is ninety degrees.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander

“The baas is dead,” cried the Gaika; “mij ossa es dood, und ek is dood.”

From The Golden Rock by Glanville, Ernest

On the left is the small Church of S. Caio, which encloses the tomb of that pope, inscribed "Sancti Caii, Pap�, martyris ossa."

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.