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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coccyx \Coc"cyx\, n.; pl L. {Coccyges}. [L., cuckoo, Gr ?,
cuckoo, coccyx. So called from its resemblance to the beak of
a cuckoo.] (Anat.)
The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and
tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebr[ae] more
or less consolidated.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
coccyx
n : the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes
[syn: {tail bone}]
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