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2 definitions found 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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