出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/07/12 18:43 UTC 版)
From Latin os (“bone”) and Middle French cone, from Latin cōnus (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”).
ossicone (plural ossicones)
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2010/12/26 08:27 UTC 版)
Ossicones are horn-like (or antler-like) protuberances on the heads of giraffes, male okapis, and their extinct relatives, such as Sivatherium, and the climacoceratids, such as Climacoceras. Only giraffids have true ossicones (as opposed to horns or antlers). The base that a deer's antlers grow from is very similar to ossicones.