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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
An accessory cloud in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences
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noun
the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: anvil
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: auditory ossicle
History
Borrowed from Latin incūs (“anvil”).
