ruoto — meaning in English

English meaning

• bone noun One of the hard, calcium-rich pieces that make up the skeleton of humans and most animals.
• chine noun The highest part of a ridge of land.
• rachis noun The backbone, made up of the vertebrae.
• ray noun A narrow beam of light or other radiation.
• shaft noun A long, narrow, straight part of a tool, weapon, or machine — such as a handle, pole, or rotating rod that transmits power.
• stalk noun The stem of a plant, or a similar stem-like part.

Senses

ruoto is used for these senses in English:

• bone A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
• chine The spine of an animal.
• pin bone A long, thin bone in a fish extending sideways from the backbone.
• rachis (ornithology) The central shaft of a feather. [from 19th c.]
• ray (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
• shaft The main axis of a feather.
• stalk (mathematics, sheaf theory) Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf \mathcal{F} on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See w:Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

bone — full definition

1. noun One of the hard, calcium-rich pieces that make up the skeleton of humans and most animals.
2. noun An off-white color resembling the shade of bone.
3. verb To remove the bones from meat or fish before cooking.

chine — full definition

1. noun The highest part of a ridge of land.
2. noun The backbone of an animal.
3. noun A cut of meat that includes part of an animal's backbone, prepared for cooking.
4. noun The rear edge of a scythe's blade.

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