Acetabulum: Definition and part of speech

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Acetabulum

  1. n. One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
  2. n. A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.
  3. n. The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
  4. n. The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
  5. n. A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
  6. n. The large posterior sucker of the leeches.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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