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1.NounA small supporting beam.
2.NounA small mineralized spicule that forms a network in spongy bone.
3.NounA fibrous strand of connective tissue that supports it in place.
4.NounEither of a pair of movable appendages on the head, in front of the antennae, of some mallophagous insects.
5.NounOne of the fleshy columns, or columnae carneae, in the ventricle of the heart, to which the chordae tendineae are attached.
6.NounA projection from the cell wall across the cell cavity of the ducts of certain plants.