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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Costa \Cos"ta\ (k[o^]s"t[.a]), n. [L., rib. See {Coast}.]
1. (Anat.) A rib of an animal or a human being
2. (Bot.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.
3. (Zo["o]l.)
a The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
b One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior
of many corals.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
costa
n 1: a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of
a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
2: any of 24 curved arches of bone extending from the spine to
or toward the sternum in man and a similar bone in most
vertebrates [syn: {rib}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Costa, WV
Zip code(s): 25051
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