English noun: costa | |||
1. | costa (body) a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing) | ||
Broader (hypernym) | anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure | ||
2. | costa (body) any 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) | ||
Synonyms | rib | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bone, os | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | true rib | ||
Part holonym | costal cartilage | ||
Part meronym | craniate, vertebrate | ||
Domain category | craniate, vertebrate | ||