malleus

  1. Noun.  (anatomy) The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.
  2. Noun.  (ichthyology) The tripus (''ossicle in cypriniform fishes'').
  3. Noun.  (zoology) One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.

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