different between giraffe vs ossicone

English

Etymology

From French giraffe (now girafe), from Arabic ????????? (zar?fa, “giraffe”); ultimately from Persian ?????????? (zurn?p?), a compound of ??????? (zurn?, “flute”) and ???? (p?, “leg”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??????f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?????æf/
• Rhymes: -??f

Noun

giraffe (plural giraffes or giraffe)

1. A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones.
2. A giraffe unicycle.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.

   Are you having a giraffe?!

Synonyms

• camelopard
• (a laugh) bubble bath, bubble

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Further reading

• giraffe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Giraffa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Giraffa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• riffage

Dutch

Etymology

Possibly via German Giraffe, from Italian giraffa, from Arabic ????????? (zar?fa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?r?f/
• Hyphenation: gi?raf?fe
• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

giraffe f (plural giraffen or giraffes, diminutive giraffetje n or girafje n)

1. Alternative spelling of giraf.

Italian

Noun

giraffe f

1. plural of giraffa

English

Etymology

From Latin os (“bone”) and Middle French cone, from Latin c?nus (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?k??n/

Noun

ossicone (plural ossicones)

1. Either of the horn-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes and male okapi. Some extinct species in the family bore antler-like ossicones.

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