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costa definition

costa (käs′tə, kôs′-)

noun pl. costae -·tae (-tē)

  1. Anat. a rib
  2. a riblike part, as the thickened fore edge of an insect's wing or the central vein of a leaf

Etymology: ModL < L, a rib (> coast)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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