MALLEUS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

2.
n.

One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.

3.
n.

A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.


← MALLET M — all words MALLOPHAGA →