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hueso — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bone noun One of the hard, calcium-rich pieces that make up the skeleton of humans and most animals.
  • kernel noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.
  • os noun In anatomy, a bone, or an opening shaped like a mouth — most commonly the opening at either end of the cervix.
  • pit noun A hole or hollow in the ground.
  • sacrum noun A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood.
  • stone noun A hard natural material, or a piece of it, such as rock or a pebble.

Senses

hueso is used for these senses in English:

  • bone A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  • kernel (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
  • pit A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
  • sacrum (anatomy) A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood.
  • seed pit A single seed in the center of a cherry, peach, plum, olive, avocado or other fruit.
  • stone (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

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.

kernel — full definition

  1. noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.
  2. noun The core or most essential part of an idea, argument, or system.
  3. noun Computing: the central part of an operating system that controls hardware and manages how programs communicate with it.

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