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Osmium
- noun -
- Hard dense silvery white metal.
Osmose
- - The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. Same as osmosis, which see.
Osmund
- noun - any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters
Ospray
- - The fishhawk (Pandion haliaetus).
Osprey
- noun - large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years
Ossean
- - A fish having a bony skeleton; a teleost.
Ossein
- - The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; bone collagen; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.
Ossete
- noun - a northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia
Ossian
- unknown - Irish (Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: Oisean) is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763),[1] and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian
Ossify
- verb - become bony; "The tissue ossified"
- cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
- make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"