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  1. ossiconenoun

    The horn-like (or antler-like) protuberances on the heads of giraffes, male okapi and their extinct relatives.

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  1. Ossicone

    Ossicones are horn-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes, male okapis, and their extinct relatives, such as Sivatherium, and the climacoceratids, such as Climacoceras. Only Giraffes have true ossicones. The base that a deer's antlers grow from is very similar to ossicones. Ossicones are similar to the horns of antelopes and cattle, save that they are derived from ossified cartilage, and that the ossicones remain covered in skin and fur, rather than horn. Antlers are derived from bone tissue: when mature, the skin and fur covering of the antlers, termed "velvet," is sloughed and scraped off to expose the bone of the antlers.

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  1. ossicone

    Antlers like on a deer


    Submitted by anonymous on May 26, 2019  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ossicone in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ossicone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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