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nounany of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)
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nouna riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
Definition that contains costa
- colon the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
- pentecostal any member of a Pentecostal religious body
- pentecostal of or relating to or characteristic of any of various Pentecostal religious bodies or their members
- gunboat a small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols
- centimo a fractional monetary unit of Venezuela and Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea and Paraguay and Spain
- arteria intercostalis several arteries and supplying the intercostal spaces of the rib cage
- caracolito large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families
- nystatin an antifungal and antibiotic (trade names Mycostatin and Nystan) discovered in New York State; derived from soil fungi actinomycetes
- world war ii a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
- potato vine vine of Costa Rica sparsely armed with hooklike spines and having large lilac-blue flowers