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Meaning of OSTEOCOLLA

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Os`te*o*col"la\, n. [Osteo- + Gr. ? glue.]
1. A kind of glue obtained from bones. --Ure.
2. A cellular calc tufa, which in some places forms
   incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed
   to have the quality of uniting fractured bones.
 
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