Synonyms:
rib
Meaning: support resembling the rib of an animal
Synonyms:
rib, costa
Meaning: 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)
Usage examples
(3) Whether of man's rib?
I have not missed any rib....
She told me she was made out of a rib taken from my body.
Therefore a rib of Adam belonged to the integrity of his body.
The old man paused in the act of splitting off a deer rib from his roast.
So, if a rib was removed, his body remained imperfect; which is unreasonable to suppose.
Objection 1: It would seem that the woman should not have been formed from the rib of man.
The bullet had struck a rib, been deflected and robbed of some of its energy, and had barely reached the heart.
Much more, therefore, was it possible that by the Divine power the body of the woman should be produced from the man's rib.
The engulfing cloth was thin and through it Brion could see the outlines of the Disan's abdomen and rib cage, the clear location of the great nerve ganglion.