nasal bones

A form of nasal bone — Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of nasal bone
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