costa

noun

any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)

a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)

Roots

costacosta- · Latin · rib, side

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