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malleus

Pronunciation: /ˈmæl.i.əs/

The English word “malleus” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.
  2. The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes).
  3. One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.

Etymology

From Latin malleus (“hammer, mallet”). Doublet of maul.

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